{"id":26872,"date":"2026-10-12T19:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=26872"},"modified":"2026-10-13T05:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:22:16","slug":"how-common-is-covid-19-and-do-people-living-with-hiv-still-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/26872","title":{"rendered":"How common is COVID in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, the best way to see how many people are getting COVID-19 is the <a href=\"https:\/\/ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk\/respiratory-viruses\/covid-19\">UKHSA database<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This shows that from September 2026 to mid-October 2026, rough 200\u2013350 people a day were diagnosed with COVID-19 in England. From April to August, figures were usually only 10\u201350 people a day.<\/p>\n<p>The UKHSA website shows data as graphs and tables going back for the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports-2026-to-2027-season\/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-report-8-october-2026-week-41\">other government website<\/a> shows weekly cases of both COVID-19 and flu.<\/p>\n<p>People living with HIV are recommended to get both vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>It is safe to have both vaccines at the same time if this is easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, do people living with HIV in the UK still need to have COVID-19 vaccinations in 2026?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,13,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-complications-and-coinfections","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}