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Originally Posted by Hugh
The stat is for those in hospital with COVID - does it not accurately reflect that?
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Yes.
But as well as people who caught covid in the "wild" whose symptoms were serious enough to present themselves to hospital, it also includes people who caught covid from another patient (or staff member/visitor) whilst in hospital for something else, or who presented with something else (e.g. a broken arm) and tested positive in a routine covid test with no symptoms of it.
The figure also doesn't take into account how long people are staying in hospital which is naturally an indication of severity though the figures for ICU admissions and patients on ventilators will take care of that in a way.