Tiny?!

Thus far we’ve had 619,000 people admitted to Hospital with COVID-19.

(Figures accurate as of today at 18:11hrs from the official statistics at Coronavirus.data.gov.uk)

619,000 and that is only so far, this pandemic has a way to go yet.

One might surmise that ‘admitted to hospital’ would qualify as seriously ill so reduce that figure by 75% and you have 464,000 people who may have been kept out of hospital had they been vaccinated.

464,000!!! We’ve only got Circa 140,000 hospital beds (NHS) in the whole of the UK, hence the significance of the strain put on their services, not to mention the financial implications (the cost will run into £Billions) and impact that all has on other patient illnesses and treatments.

How you could trivialise potentially 464,000 avoidable hospitalisations (more than three times the NHS national capacity) as ‘tiny’ or ignore the basic fact that 90% of current COVID patients in ICU are unvaccinated, is quite honestly just astounding.

May be heresay as they did not contact me, but I have heard track and trace are trying to apply more severe covid regulations than those currently published by BoJo.

Lockdown by stealth perhaps.

Where is this on the link you provided?
As of right now we have 643,000 positive cases of covid 19 in the last 7 days & 6147 people admitted to hospital also in the last 7 days that means we still have 134,000 hospital beds.

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Edit: Ah I think your'e referring to since the beginning of the pandemic?

Edited by Ouzo Dan (22 Dec 2021 8.08pm)

The mountains are calling & I must go.

Surely you understand that that most people in hospital with covid wouldn't need to be there if they were vaccinated?

Of course, you do. You just don't care that they are taking up resources they don't need to. So are smokers I hear you say! Ah, but treating smokers with lung cancer is factored in to NHS routine work. It is planned for. Reducing smoking is a long term project. Not an emergency one.

A pandemic places sudden additional demands on health services. When a simple, safe way of protecting people both from excessive infection and illness at no cost to them, only the stupid or the selfish refuse.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

That's random.

If that stat is right then that's over the course of the pandemic, half of which didn't have any vaccines available and thus would have accounted for the bulk of hospitalisations and been unavoidable.

Then of course you have administering the vaccine itself, which takes months

So right there the platform of statistics you have convinced yourself on just isn't accurate.

You give this 90 percent figure for unvaccinated....I'd like to see the actual evidence for that....though I don't doubt that it'll be more than vaccinated. However, I doubt you were banning people from smoking or eating burgers so people's personal health decisions about what goes into their bodies is for them.

You or I might have opinions on what's best for others and you have a right to voice them but really that's as far as it goes.

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