This morning I set about updating my stats database with the latest NHS England hospital activity data and sat bewildered for a while until I realised NHS digital have been revising outputs. After a bit of a rant I settled down into linking the necessary spreadsheets and thought the following four slides might proffer a lunchtime tasty treaty.
In this first slide we get to see daily COVID admissions proper (people coming in through the front door) and daily inpatients testing positive who are then classified as an ‘admission’ in figures blurted out by politicians, officials, experts and the legacy media. We may deduce that COVID is primarily a ‘back door’ disease – go to hospital for a hernia repair and come out with something a little extra special. The big assumption here is that PCR test is a reliable diagnostic tool. With this in mind we may note the explosive outbreak among inpatients just prior to 1st Jan ’22. Some are going to put this down to vaccines but it could also easily b…