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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
It is only correct if the patients admitted to hospital are admitted because of Covid.
If they are admitted for a completely unrelated condition and simply happen to test positive for Covid, it is wrong to quote those figures to justify more restrictions.
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And it measures patients who are admitted to hospital with COVID, not tested after they had been admitted.
The clue is in the title "Patients admitted to hospital"
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Originally Posted by nffc
Yes, but if one person went into hospital with covid and wasn't quarantined, and then ended up on a ward with 15 or so others, who then caught it, even if no-one else was admitted in those few days, that figure would go from 1 to 16.
And it may be currently increasing, but it has spent the last few months oscillating within a similar amount. If it moves significantly ahead of this amount it would be potentially concerning. But this hasn't happened yet and it's no certainty that it will.
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No, it wouldn’t, because the 15 weren’t admitted to hospital with COVID.
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Originally Posted by Carth
I'm pretty sure that computers would still generate data that statistics are rising months after everyone is dead . . . not that we'd still be arguing over it  |
No, because there would be no one to enter the data…
