There's also an important difference of people being admitted to hospital due to COVID and those being admitted to hospital due to other issues with COVID.
If it's so prevalent in society, the latter is more likely.
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If it's so prevalent in society, the latter is more likely.
No, cumulative (if you mean the 766 figure)
yeah @LinekersLegs posted a thread earlier in regards to that, but it's data from last week so it's not yet been updated I don't think
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The main question mark now is how close to the peak are we in England? If they announce a lockdown just after new year surely we'll already be very close to the peak. The time for a lockdown might have already passed.
You can test positive on a PCR prior to symptoms emerging, but you can also be asymptomatic. Not to sound glib, but only time will tell.
yeah you could develop symptoms or stay totally fine mate
I do mate, looks daily to me and higher than 766.
that's the daily hospital stats yes, but not the Omicron specific ones - which is the 766 figure.
As you can see it was 668 yesterday (for data up to and including Boxing Day), and there were 4 new deaths from 6pm Boxing Day to end of play December 27th. This is Omicron specific.
EDIT: Cause of how I quoted to BullyBeef, it all merged into one but the 'headline figures' bit was in reference to that doc that I've linked, which is the daily Omicron review.
The figures don’t make sense mate, if 93% of all cases are Omicron, hospitilations for Covid at 1.200k admissions a day and rising exponentially since the advent of omicron and cumulatively there have only been 766 hospital admissions total because of Omicron, someone’s Maths are wrong - maybe mine admittedly. lol
At the very least I think 766 might be the daily figure. Elsewise your in the middle of massive Delta wave, which is unlikely given the 93% to 7% ratio.
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Really don't think it's the daily figure mate, because everything else is cumulative. Also if we look at the SA hospitalisation data that followed a similar trend.
However it's my phrasing that was wrong. I said '93% of new COVID cases' but it isn't that. It's from this table:
EDIT: It can't be the daily figure as there were only 18 deaths reported today, whereas the deaths on the Omicron summary are 53, so it would be impossible!
Beyond your comprehension perhaps
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Also, no the maths isn't wrong. It's just that Omicron isn't causing serious illness. If you look at the table, and track back to when Delta was still quite prevalent, you're going back around 14-17 days, which is what we know the lag time is for Delta to Hospital. That is based on previous info from Public Health England.
Omicron spike is going to start going up around now for sure. I'd expect to hit 100+ new hospitalisations tomorrow perhaps? Latest ONS data is 10 days the typical time for Omicron to hospital.
No bother mate, the sums don’t make sense is all, in all honesty, I think the cumulative 766 cumulative figure can’t be correct.
I mean even in the above case figures are suspicious, there was 180k cases in the U.K. today, surely it’s more than 35k in in England listed above. The U.K. was posting an average of 40k in Delta all year. While before Xmas and the NI, Scotland, Wales backlog they averaging 100k.
Those figures just don’t look right to me, perhaps they are sampling. I see in the notes on the table that there is a caveat, of just those samples sent to two laboratories….
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