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> Read the article and that "one fifth" claim is from a tiny snap shot of 250 cases. The rest of the data in the article shows the vast majority of the 8,000 pl

• irthomasthomas 5y ago
  Nonsense. Read for yourself https://archive.is/tybj9 https://archive.is/tybj9 Yes, the one-fifth is of the increase. But read the rest.. "Overall, nearly 30 per cent of people currently in hospital with Covid are “incidental” cases - 1,813 out of 6,245 - the highest it has been since the NHS started releasing the figures in the summer. The number of incidental Covid cases has been rising in recent weeks because omicron is far more infectious than delta, meaning that many people will be entering hospital unknowingly infected. In the previous week, December 7 to December 14 - when the vast majority of hospitalisations were still delta - some 59 per cent of the 289 weekly rise was primarily Covid. Experts said it was important to treat the current hospital data with caution, while Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, said: “This is not the same disease we were seeing a year ago. “The horrific scenes that we saw a year ago – intensive care units being full, lots of people dying prematurely – that is now history in my view and I think…that’s likely to continue.""