UK - over 50,000 cases today- Hospitals Intensive care overwhelmed by unvaccinated.

[kiwibird]

https://www.gov.uk/government/statis...to-2022-season

Graph page 57.

 

[kiwibird]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-59405471

Doctors have warned hospital wards are being "brought to their knees" largely by unvaccinated Covid-19 patients.

Gloucestershire Royal Hospital said its Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) had reached capacity.

It said the number of patients with Covid in the hospital was lower than at this time last year, but it had more patients in its intensive therapy unit.

Intensive care doctors have urged people to have the Covid-19 vaccination "because it does make a difference".

 

[sharon sanders]

bump this

 

[JJackson]

Kiwibird I am not sure which document the "Highest covid rates among 5-10 year olds - lowest in over 80's" came from. When I looked at the latest report at the link page 57 was not relevant but the graph below Fig 43a Which gives new hospital admissions by age paints a different picture.
The age lines follow a strict chronological order oldest to youngest equating to highest admissions to lowest.

 

[kiwibird]

Kiwibird I am not sure which document the "Highest covid rates among 5-10 year olds - lowest in over 80's" came from. When I looked at the latest report at the link page 57 was not relevant but the graph below Fig 43a Which gives new hospital admissions by age paints a different picture.
The age lines follow a strict chronological order oldest to youngest equating to highest admissions to lowest.

Thanks for the look JJackson - always appreciated. I think it was from this article https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/age-groups-most-likely-catch-25548060

The figures, from the Health Security Agency weekly surveillance report, show rates have also increased among all adult groups up to the age of 59.

But levels of Covid-19 have fallen for people aged 60 and over, with rates for the over-80s dropping from 81.0 to 63.6.

 

[kiwibird]

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19...eaths-reported-and-r-number-ticks-up-12479496

The UK has recorded 50,091 new COVID-19 cases and 160 more coronavirus-related deaths in the latest 24-hour period, government data shows.

It is the first time since 21 October that new cases have been above 50,000 - on that day 52,009 new infections were announced.

 

[kiwibird]

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19...s-10-million-since-start-of-pandemic-12478490

"COVID-19: Total number of cases in UK passes 10 million since start of pandemic
The latest government data also revealed another 147 people have died with COVID."