Most omicron hospitalisations unintended

Around 80% of English hospital admissions with coronavirus are admitted for other reasons UK, 24th December Omicron hospital patients, 366 Total omicron deaths, 29 UK, 27th December Omicron hospital patients, 407 Total omicron deaths, 39 Omicron cases + 45,307 = 159,932 UK, 29th December Omicron hospital patients, + 261 + 98 = 766 Total omicron deaths, + 10 + 4 = 53 UK data https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-omicron-daily-overview https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels-over-time https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk SA data SA hospital data https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/disease-index-covid-19/surveillance-reports/daily-hospital-surveillance-datcov-report/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-africa/ US cases and deaths data https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases Isolation down to 5 days is asymptomatic 20% of covid admissions caused by viral complications https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/28/covid-hospital-data-should-treated-caution-many-patients-admitted/ December 21, England Covid patients in hospital = 6,245 Up 259 from previous week Of the 259, just 45 admitted because of the virus Of the 259, admitted, 214 for other conditions but having also tested positive “incidental Covid” admissions Previous week, December 7 to December 14 Majority of hospitalisations were still delta Primary covid cases were 59% of the 289 weekly rise People currently in hospital with Covid “incidental” cases, 1,813 out of 6,245 Highest so far Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine, Oxford University This is not the same disease we were seeing a year ago The horrific scenes that we saw a year ago – intensive care units being full, lots of people dying prematurely – that is now history in my view and I think…that’s likely to continue Chris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers What our guys are saying is that incidental cases are making around 25 to 30 per cent of cases that are arriving, but that will vary from place to place In London you would expect to see higher levels lower in somewhere like the South West, where community infections are lower They are seeing an increase in the number of hospital admissions but it's not precipitous. It's not going up in an exponential way As the number of cases in the community rises, there are significant levels of incidental cases But we mustn't forget that having those people in hospital causes complications because of infection control measures under significant amounts of pressure and are struggling with high numbers of staff absences More cases of incidental Covid compared to previous waves Dr Raghib Ali, consultant in acute medicine at Oxford University Hospitals, There is certainly a smaller proportion of people ending up with Covid pneumonia in intensive care Probably half the cases I’ve seen are incidentals You’ve got completely incidental cases, someone coming in with a broken leg, who also tests positive for Covid, then a third category of older people who have comorbidities. Maybe they’ve had a fall or chest pain and also test positive and it's unclear if the virus is having some sort of impact. And when the prevalence of a virus with relatively mild symptoms is high in the community then you will see higher incidentals Similar to Gauteng, with 52% incidentals Report from Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (May 1 to Dec 24) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10348763/Most-pregnant-women-ventilators-Covid-havent-jab.html https://www.icnarc.org/our-audit/audits/cmp/reports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices