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Originally Posted by spiderplant
Well aside from the fact it's admissions over the week rather than numbers in hospital,
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Fair observation.
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I've re-read the ONS site and I still believe my interpretation is correct. And 1,950 feels like a reasonable figure. 87,100 is clearly bonkers.
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Agreed, 87,100 is clearly bonkers. Which is why JFmans assertion that it is per population is clearly incorrect.
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Also it says "The hospitalisation rate for COVID-19 was at 18.41 per 100,000 in week 52", which seems about right if you average out all the age groups.
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I think the stats are just there to confuse you.
You correctly state that the overall hospitalisation rate for the week was 18.41 per 100,000 across all ages…and that could well be at a population level too.
But the chart, just below that statement, that I refer to, says something completely different.
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Wouldn't it add up to 100,000 in that case?
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No, it would depend on the hospitalised total and be based against that. As mentioned earlier if the hospitalised total is 20,000, then the pro-rate figure of 100,000 is one fifth of that.