@TabbyStar
Richard’s bed occupancy data is really interesting, but it also needs another column which is number of beds on the allocated Covid wards
Could you get some sort of idea from how many beds were occupied during the peak in the spring, presume those figures are around somewhere?
The peak number of "total beds occupied by COVID patients" was on April 12, and was 18,970.
As at Oct 1, that number was 2,069, and according to the dashboard is now 3,044 (England only). Clearly nowhere near the peak, and we are in a very different place to March, but still, it's growing faster than I think any of us would like.
What's also interesting about the data is that it enables some digging on the numbers of people who are admitted because of Covid, and the numbers who are diagnosed in hospital later (presumably due to Covid acquired in hospital).
You have to make some assumptions, but - for example; for Sept 23-30, there were 1,980 "admissions and diagnoses in Hospital" , of who 260 had a positive swab more than 3 days after admissions, so you can possibly assume they are hospital acquired infections. So around 13% of infections may have been hospital acquired.