Outbreaks of Covid do not follow the seasonal patterns that Flu and RSV exhibit.

Weekly hospital admissions per 100,000 people in England for the main respiratory viruses: Jan 2017 to Sep 2024

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From August 2022 hospitals stopped testing for patients for asymptomatic Covid. This means that Covid hospital admissions from this date are not comparable with earlier data.

Chart: Bob HawkinsSource: UKHSAGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper