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COVID Fact-Check: "ICUs Are Filled With The Unvaccinated"; It’s become a common meme to refer to ICU’s being “filled” with the unvaccinated, but is there any truth to that?
Off Guardian ^ | 12/09/2021

Posted on 12/09/2021 10:07:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind

A few days ago Dr Hillary Jones, whilst being interviewed on Lorraine Kelly, claimed:

90% of people in hospital are unvaccinated”.

🚨🚨 @reallorraine - “That is a really a figure we really need to concentrate on, 90% of people in hospital have not been vaccinated”

➡️ A figure to focus on because its factually incorrect from @DrHilaryJones

◼️ 36% of Covid patients in hospital unvaccinated not 90% pic.twitter.com/PBw1RVGM2E — Jamie Jenkins (@statsjamie) December 6, 2021

Similarly, last week, Kevin Maguire claimed on Jeremy Vine’s show that:

The unvaccinated are filling hospital beds, they’re in ICUs taking up precious resources – there are hospital waiting lists going up because there are so many unvaccinated people in hospitals”

1/4 On @JeremyVineOn5 @Kevin_Maguire claimed the following

"The unvaccinated are filling hospital beds, they're in ICUs taking up precious resources - there are hospital waiting lists going up because there are so many unvaccinated people in hospitals"@Ofcom

Next thread 👇 pic.twitter.com/FYG6kXOUxN — James (@JamesfWells) December 3, 2021

Television presenters and news headlines across the United Kingdom have commonly referred to hospitals being filled with unvaccinated covid19 patients.

As if it could ever be considered evidence of anything, an anonymous “doctor” wrote a piece for The Guardian, which he filled with nameless anecdotal evidence, and emotively headlined:

ICU is full of the unvaccinated – my patience with them is wearing thin

This claim is regularly used as an argument for vaccine mandates, and/or unvaxxed-only lockdowns.

But is it true?

In a word, no.

ICUs are not “full” of unvaccinated covid patients, they’re not even full of covid cases. In fact, they’re not even full at all.

As of last week, NHS England’s own bed statistics reported that England has 4330 available critical care beds, of which 894 (21%) are being used by Covid patients, 2608 (60%) non-Covid patients and 828 (19%) were empty.

So, England’s critical care beds are not even 90% full, let alone 90% full of unvaccinated covid patients.

But let’s be charitable and assume these people misspoke or communicated their point badly. Let’s assume they meant 90% of covid hospitalisations are unvaccinated.

That, at least, is true right? Wrong.

The actual number is 35.4%

According to the UK’s Health Security Agency data (page 31 of this document) 6639 patients were admitted to hospital “with Covid” in the weeks 44-47 of this year. Of those 6639, 2355 were unvaccinated.

So unvaccinated people do not even make up the majority of Covid cases, let alone the majority of ICU admissions in general.

So, even going by the official statistics – which we’ve previously shown are routinely inflated to make the “pandemic” appear frightening – the claim is incorrect.

And that doesn’t even account for the fact that, according to Public Health England, a “Covid hospitalisation” is anyone admitted to hospital for any reason within 28 days of a positive Covid test. This could include people who are admitted to hospital for something else and then happen to test positive while they are there.

We could also discuss the tiny number of hospital beds available in this country, which has more than halved since the 1980s, whilst the population has exploded in that time.

But that’s really an article for another day.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: covid; factcheck; icu; vaccination
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1 posted on 12/09/2021 10:07:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

C’mon Seek. We know that numbers are racist.


2 posted on 12/09/2021 10:09:46 AM PST by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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To: SeekAndFind

thousands of unvaxxed crossing the border daily.

dispersed through out the country

no surprise they end up in ICUs


3 posted on 12/09/2021 10:11:22 AM PST by thinden
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To: SeekAndFind

Comparisons to Nazis on various levels are not inappropriate.

The propaganda, ie overt lies.
The demonization/dehumanization of the other, ie non-vaccinated.


4 posted on 12/09/2021 10:12:34 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: SeekAndFind; blueplum

For bluebub ...


5 posted on 12/09/2021 10:12:55 AM PST by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Finest Medical System on earth has been turned
into a tool for
The Great Reset.
.
Shame on It!


6 posted on 12/09/2021 10:13:15 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: SeekAndFind

A shot that still allows you to catch and transmit a virus that there’s a 99.8% chance you recover from......not to mention the side effects...some of which you may never recover from....riiight


7 posted on 12/09/2021 10:13:41 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: SeekAndFind

Some of the ICUs as in NY could be full because of staff shortages from retirements and firing meaning fewer beds available.


8 posted on 12/09/2021 10:18:40 AM PST by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by jury nullification. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Lots of CONFLATING

1. percentage of HOSPITALIZED (i.e., both in ICU and “regular” hospital beds) COVID-19 positive patients who are unvaccinated

and

2. percentage of COVID-19 positive patients IN THE ICU who are unvaccinated.

If they would merely “UNCONFLATE” the numbers they would be both more accurate and more believable. But the Agenda driven will never do that, of course.


9 posted on 12/09/2021 10:18:57 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: SeekAndFind

Is it the unvaccinated? Or the not boosted? Or the not fully vaccinated (as of the current definition which changes weekly). Or... Or... Is it all just B.S.?!?!

I’ll take B.S. for the win, Alex!


10 posted on 12/09/2021 10:22:00 AM PST by workerbee (==)
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To: ifinnegan

“Comparisons to Nazis on various levels are not inappropriate.”

Which is why I’ve taken to referring to the pro-mandaters as collaborators.

Perhaps thinking about the implications of that label will cause some of them to rethink where they want to end up when this crisis is over.


11 posted on 12/09/2021 10:32:27 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: SeekAndFind

Must lock down America.
A major election is around the corner.


12 posted on 12/09/2021 10:34:05 AM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down pres. Brandon!)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s a game. Since folks without the “booster” are now considered “unvaccinated”, they can always stay one step ahead of transparency.


13 posted on 12/09/2021 10:34:19 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have a doctor who works in the hospital a lot. Last November through January he said it was filled with COVID patients. A few weeks ago he told me the hospital was busy (not packed), but not from COVID.


14 posted on 12/09/2021 10:34:34 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Big Red Badger

Agreed. The numbers are a lie. The hospitals are active participants in this scam to the tune of $12,000 to $50,000 paid to them from the government for every patient admitted for “COVID”. Great motivation for unethical hospital staff to “diagnose” and admit patients due to COVID.

And it’s not just the hospital administrations propagating this. Most of the doctors, nurses and technicians are willing participants, too.

I still maintain absolute trust in my primary physician that I have had for over 20 years, but have lost all faith and trust in the integrity or ethics of hospitals.


15 posted on 12/09/2021 10:38:37 AM PST by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Good article. Simple, powerful facts. Well done.


16 posted on 12/09/2021 10:44:57 AM PST by edwinland
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To: SeekAndFind
Our daughter in law is the VP of finance for a large healthcare/hospital consortium in our region. My wife overheard an online conference call of hers the other day in which they were updating on patient numbers in each of their hospitals. She happened to hear their recitation of COVID patient numbers, and in every case they were in the single digits per hospital, three in this one, two in that one, etc. The claim that hospitals are overrun with ANY COVID patients, much less the “evil” “unvaccinated”, is an outright lie.

Incidentally, our daughter in law has said before that she makes so much money that she is actually embarrassed to say how much. We love her of course, but the healthcare industry is seriously broken. I once spent a grand total of 45 minutes in an emergency room, virtually all of which was spent by myself just waiting, all for a minor non-issue that my insurer insisted I go for (probably as CYA for themselves). They did virtually nothing other than give me a saline IV and a prescription, yet I subsequently received a nearly $8,000 bill. When I ran this bill by my daughter in law to see if she thought this was right, she didn’t bat an eye and casually said, “Yeah, that sounds about right.” Her opinion was that a charge like that was pretty typical, even if very little was done. It’s completely absurd and out of control.

17 posted on 12/09/2021 10:48:07 AM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Qui is
The hospitals are active participants in this scam to the tune of $12,000 to $50,000 paid to them from the government for every patient admitted for “COVID”. Great motivation for unethical hospital staff to “diagnose” and admit patients due to COVID.

The medical community has lost all credibility at this point. They are no better than politicians, journalists and used car salesmen.

18 posted on 12/09/2021 10:53:28 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: SeekAndFind

How about a list of lies by the scientific community. Start with breast cancer (highly inflated numbers, meant to encourage exams), cigarette smoke (again, highly inflated numbers), numerous dietary guidelines (many times from weak, inaccurate, or manipulated studies), freon and ozone, acid rain, global warming (global cooling, climate change, manipulated data, always wrong projection models), and the greatest achievement of fraud science, covid 19 data.


19 posted on 12/09/2021 10:55:45 AM PST by robel
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To: SeekAndFind

Anyone who is alive, has a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, and is relatively aware, knows that the “pandemic of the unvaxxed” is utter crap.


20 posted on 12/09/2021 10:55:45 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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