UK Covid case number rise sees fewer severely unwell elder people needing intensive care treatment.

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/risk-...a-third-of-that-from-delta-new-uk-data-shows/

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Hopson said the latest infection data showed a “rapid increase in community infections” that is leading to rising hospital admissions.

He added that if growth rates go back up again after the socialising that will have taken place at Christmas, then hospital trusts will have to “start standing up extra surge capacity late next week”. Hopson said this would put pressure “on less-urgent elective activity”.

Hopson said there were fewer severely unwell elderly people needing intensive care treatment, so the problem was “less one of patient acuity” and more “one of sheer volume of patient numbers” needing general and acute beds.