Bike Tyson
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Thats false information, 70-90% is percent of people in hospital with Covid I think.
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Thats false information, 70-90% is percent of people in hospital with Covid I think.
Bike Tyson
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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Slightly fewer than those where it turned out worse.
Tbh, David Spiegelhalter's interview on C4 last night pretty much sums it up for me (not surprisingly). There is a large uncertainty in what will happen, but its very infectious. His face at the end where he knows the interviewer is getting a bit frustrated with the lack of clear answers is a treat, but thats pretty much the reality of things.
https://www.channel4.com/news/unvac...this-winter-says-prof-sir-david-spiegelhalter
https://www.channel4.com/news/unvac...this-winter-says-prof-sir-david-spiegelhalter
Bike Tyson
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I know, not very helpful but best I could find.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
Our local news programme for the South West tonight said that a laboratory in Wolverhampton which was given £120 million for a government contract to do the PCR tests got the tests wrong from when they started in September resulting in 43,000 wrong tests . People who had tested positive on the lateral flow test started querying the negative test from the laboratory. It seems as though the laboratory was allowed to continue for a month although the authorities knew of the anomalies.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Yep, Immensa. GoodLawProject have filed for a Judicial Review. https://goodlawproject.org/news/immensa-update/
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
The cases of COVID here sky rocketed due to their mistakes .
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
It appears that the South West was the biggest feeder of tests into Immensa, Wales less so, but unnecessary infections and deaths for the two. And for people doing the right thing.
cougie uk
Guru
You have to plan for the worst. If we overloaded the NHS then we would be getting deaths not just from Covid but normally preventable illness and injury.
And remember when deaths under 20k was said to be a good result ? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-idUSKBN21F0HV
Now we are on 147k.
Ajax Bay
Guru
- Location
- East Devon
I'm afraid I don't understand whether you mean this or not.
In UK (20 Dec) there are 7801 people who have tested positive with COVID-19 in the last 28 days in hospital.
The total number of beds in England's hospitals is 141k (includes general and acute, mental illness, learning disability, maternity and day-only) and about another 21k in the other home nations = 162k. Reduce this by 15% to allow for beds in the non-general and acute categories, gets one to 138k.
So the percentage of beds in UK hospitals occupied by "Covid" patients is currently <6%.
The table you/ @vickster shared above is best viewed through the lens of the doubly vaccinated percentage of those age cohorts (above 60 is high 90s). Then look at the proportions of unvaccinated which increase as age cohort decreases. A fair proportion of the vaccinated over 70s (and especially the over 80s) will be in hospital with not because of Covid.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Bike Tyson
Guest
Who is in hospital with Covid or because of Covid is anybodies guess, I would imagine a lot are catching it in the hospitals when there for something else, probably more oldies with as opposed to because of covid but who knows, my point all along is the vaccines are not reducing transmission as much as was being touted especially in older people.
