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Just one-fifth of new Covid hospital patients are true cases
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 28 December 2021 | SCIENCE EDITOR

Posted on 12/29/2021 8:45:43 PM PST by Fractal Trader

Just one fifth of the weekly rise in Covid inpatients was caused by people admitted to hospital because of the virus, figures suggest. The most up-to-date NHS data show that on December 21, there were 6,245 beds occupied by coronavirus patients in English hospitals - an increase of 259 from the previous week. But within that increase, just 45 patients were admitted because of the virus, with the remaining 214 in hospital for other conditions but having also tested positive - so called “incidental Covid” admissions. Proportion of increase in Covid inpatients being driven by true Covid cases

Critics of the data say it is wrong to include incidental figures in the daily updates of admissions and patient totals, as they can include someone with a broken leg who has just also tested positive on admission, but may be completely asymptomatic. 'Not the same disease we were seeing a year ago' The growing prevalence of omicron in the community also means that there are far more people likely to test positive on entering hospital, compared to during previous waves. Overall, nearly 30 per cent of people currently in hospital with Covid are “incidental” cases - 1,813 out of 6,245 - the highest it has been since the NHS started releasing the figures in the summer. The number of incidental Covid cases has been rising in recent weeks because omicron is far more infectious than delta, meaning that many people will be entering hospital unknowingly infected. In the previous week, December 7 to December 14 - when [SNIP] Experts said it was important to treat the current hospital data with caution, while Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, said: “This is not the same disease we were seeing a year ago.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
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1 posted on 12/29/2021 8:45:43 PM PST by Fractal Trader
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To: Fractal Trader

Here’s how to tell the difference between flu, common cold and COVID-19
https://abc7chicago.com/coronavirus-symptoms-vs-cold-covid-testing-the-flu-omicron/11403538/

“Doctors admit it’s confusing. [!] Symptoms are similar: body aches, fever, chills, feeling fatigued, congestion, coughing and sneezing.

“”There’s no way to know whether somebody has a cold, the flu, COVID without a test,” said Dr. Allison Arwady of the Chicago Department of Public Health.”


2 posted on 12/29/2021 8:48:33 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: ransomnote; Jane Long

ping


3 posted on 12/29/2021 8:50:34 PM PST by Fractal Trader
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To: BenLurkin

And which test can be truster at this point to give a correct result?


4 posted on 12/29/2021 8:51:53 PM PST by AlmaKing
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To: Fractal Trader

Big difference between “OF” and “WITH”


5 posted on 12/29/2021 8:58:13 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: BenLurkin

“Doctors admit it’s confusing. [!] Symptoms are similar: body aches, fever, chills, feeling fatigued, congestion, coughing and sneezing.

“”There’s no way to know whether somebody has a cold, the flu, COVID without a test,” said Dr. Allison Arwady of the Chicago Department of Public Health.”
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Suppose you test positive with no symptoms and then independently catch a cold. Chances are that the hospital will admit you for covid “treatment” — and collect big money from the government for doing this.


6 posted on 12/29/2021 9:05:42 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: BenLurkin

Just stunning how the flu is suddenly “back” after being almost non-existent during 2020.

Isn’t it?


7 posted on 12/29/2021 9:13:29 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: JennysCool

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3


8 posted on 12/29/2021 9:21:41 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Fractal Trader

Not enough to maintain the scam.


9 posted on 12/29/2021 9:29:19 PM PST by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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To: Fractal Trader

The fake tests make it look like everyone has covid.


10 posted on 12/29/2021 9:40:30 PM PST by Revel
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To: Fractal Trader

Well, that can’t be; just ask the FReeper vaccine believers, here.


11 posted on 12/29/2021 11:35:15 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Fractal Trader

More backpedaling.

Little by little, bit by bit, a little here, a little there, and before you know it, Covid is no longer an issue.

Watch, within a couple months, this whole thing will be just like a bad dream. Just in time for midterms.


12 posted on 12/29/2021 11:38:56 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Socon-Econ
Suppose you test positive with no symptoms and then independently catch a cold. Chances are that the hospital will admit you for covid “treatment” — and collect big money from the government for doing this.

And syill get paid big bucks for trying to kill you.

13 posted on 12/29/2021 11:40:09 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Fractal Trader
Just one-fifth of new Covid hospital patients are true cases

In a related story, almost none of the witches hanged in Salem were "real" witches.

Regards,

14 posted on 12/30/2021 4:21:36 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Revel

I know of four people who were in the hospital for various things, not COVID, and later found that they were coded as COVID.


15 posted on 12/30/2021 6:41:12 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Lizavetta

Since hospitals are paid extra for every COVID case; is it possible that people being admitted to hospitals are actually infected with the disease? If a hospital were to have a mild variant of COVID; which posed no real health risk; and they receive large payments from the government for every COVID patient admitted; is the medical establishment above suspicion?


16 posted on 12/30/2021 7:36:31 AM PST by CoastWatcher
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