Scottish figures are hugely encouraging. No deaths for 2 days, 7 days rolling average new infections running at 14 per day. 5 people in ICU.
Hospital admissions way down too - average of 4 per day. This has been coming down for weeks, middle of May it was about 32 admissions a day and at the peak, on 1st April, 212 admissions.
Yet the government figures are still showing that there are 456 people in hospital, including the 5 in ICU. Now doesn't that indicate that the people who are admitted, are, on average there for a looooong time? Or does it mean that some of the people were already seriously ill with whatever and are recorded as a Covid case, but would have been in hospital anyway because of their underlying condition?
Anecdotally, a friend of a friend is a nurse who caught Covid19 in March and was seriously ill (type 1 diabetic, other health issues), was in ICU, ventilated, and is still in hospital albeit on a normal ward.
Are there any figures for average hospital stay?
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average stay for Covid - is it really, really long?
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SockYarn · 27/06/2020 18:50
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