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Alla enligt länken
Stämmer faktiskt inte helt.
Uppgifter förra veckan gjorde gällande att 50% av de inlagda vid det tillfället var inlagda pga annat..
Dock behöver de ju isoleras som covidpatienter..
Citat från BBC.
”With the Omicron variant leading to milder disease, we need to think differently about Covid now.
Hospital data requires much closer analysis than it once did.
On paper there is the highest number in hospital in England since early March.
But that has been artificially inflated by two things this week.
Firstly, the number of people being discharged from hospital will have dropped significantly over the festive period. Last year the rate of discharged halved, meaning there are likely to be hundreds of patients in hospital who have recovered from Covid.
Secondly a growing proportion of hospitalisations are for what is known as an incidental admission. They are people being treated for something else, but just happen to have Covid.
Last week this stood at about three in 10, but the expectation is this will have increased by now. The latest figures will be released on Thursday.
Therefore, it is possible of the 9,500 in hospital maybe around 6,000 are acutely unwell with Covid.
These numbers are undoubtedly going to go up in the coming weeks as Omicron spreads.
But the raw data will only tell us so much.”