NHSUK: Emergency Respiratory Admissions (%age)

In the last post we saw something nasty in the woodshed, this being total lack of a surge in the number of emergency respiratory admissions requiring respiratory procedures for the one of the busiest UK NHS Trusts following the onset of the pandemic. Instead, we observed a thumping great surge in numbers during the winter of Dec 2019/Jan 2020; a fact that struck a chord with many members reporting symptoms identical to COVID-19 as designated by WHO. Early spread of the disease will no doubt be hotly denied and supported by studies carefully designed to this end. Arguing whether or not this early wave was indeed COVID-19 opens a rather large can of worms concerning methods of symptomatic definition (lack thereof), reliance on a genome derived from isolates (as opposed to the isolated virus) and a test designed to test what it tests for. I’m tempted to coin the phrase autodiagnosis. This morning I am going to present two more slides in this miniseries.

Slide #1 reveals total daily admiss…