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Originally Posted by Hugh
Your 2015 links states that up to 50 per day were being admitted to hospital.
Your 2018 link states that 421 patients were admitted to hospital with flu in the week ending 31st December 2017.
2019 link states 237 admissions in a week.
On Monday, 18th January 2021, 4034 patients were admitted that day with COVID.
50 a day (350 per week), 421 in a week, 237 in a week vs 4034 in a day... |
The claim was the flu never overwhelmed the NHS. Those links quote NHS leaders claiming the NHS was being or about to be overwhelmed by the flu.
The degree of the overwhelming or capacity of the NHS at the time of the overwhelming can be debated.
In any event the claims of the NHS being overwhelmed by the flu in those links is not a fabrication, I’m just posting the links.