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Mass Covid deaths and full intensive care units are likely ‘now history’ in UK, scientist claims
‘This not the same disease as we were seeing a year ago,’ Professor Sir John Bell says
Andy Gregory 1 day ago
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But Sir John said that, while recent NHS hospitalisation data spanning weekends and national holidays tend to be “less robust”, there were “some hard pieces of data” available to ministers deciding upon new restrictions for England, such as the number of vaccinated people in intensive care units.
“That number remains very, very low,” he said.
Asked about the “dramatic” 45 per cent rise in the the number of Covid-19 patients in London hospitals in the week to 27 December, Sir John said: “I think you’ve got to be careful about that ... First of all in absolute numbers, it’s not massive, it’s an increase of about 200 people a day, and it still remains less than 400 which is a marker that we had been watching.”
Mass Covid deaths and full intensive care units are likely ‘now history’ in UK, scientist claims
‘This not the same disease as we were seeing a year ago,’ Professor Sir John Bell says
Andy Gregory 1 day ago
...
But Sir John said that, while recent NHS hospitalisation data spanning weekends and national holidays tend to be “less robust”, there were “some hard pieces of data” available to ministers deciding upon new restrictions for England, such as the number of vaccinated people in intensive care units.
“That number remains very, very low,” he said.
Asked about the “dramatic” 45 per cent rise in the the number of Covid-19 patients in London hospitals in the week to 27 December, Sir John said: “I think you’ve got to be careful about that ... First of all in absolute numbers, it’s not massive, it’s an increase of about 200 people a day, and it still remains less than 400 which is a marker that we had been watching.”
