[quote Firefliess]**@Doomaday* i think the numbers in hospital with Covid are broadly comparable to the first wave. Firstly because the large majority of people in hospital with Covid are* there because they're receiving treatment for it. At my local hospital they recently got to more than half of available beds being Covid patients - the rate of Covid in the general population is only around 1%, so they're not likely to be admitting that high a proportion of people with broken legs who happen to have Covid. But secondly, testing all hospital patients on admission was something we did start doing pretty early on, well before mass testing was rolled out to other people. [/quote]
Yeah you are right.
Did we start that test on admission by July?
But my thinking is that there might be more routine testing, picking up people who are in hospital, and caught covid there (because I assume you are much more likely to in a hospital), and this is inflating the numbers. As these people aren’t particularly unwell, and get discharged once their primary ailment is fixed, thus one more off the total.
I am not covid denying, although it does sound like it. And no doubt those on the front line of the intensive care wards must feel like it isn’t getting any better, but if you step back, perhaps the trajectory is better than most realise?
Just feels like we are going to be sub 10k in hospital by March 8th.