The dispicable fuckers at the Telegraph are now trying to get the figures regarding how many Covid patients were hospitalised for non-Covid reasons released. I wouldn't mind seeing those figures myself, but the Telegraph have their own disgusting pandemic stance motives for wanting them.
I noticed via tomorrows front pages the following article where they try to pile on pressure by talking about some different data that has apparently been leaked to them. This data gives some indication of when people tested positive, which is related to what they are really after but not at all the same thing. So the article has to do some twists and turns to serve their agenda.
Leaked data suggest vast numbers classed as being hospitalised by the virus when they were admitted with other ailments
www.telegraph.co.uk
They've got a figure of 44% of covid patients having tested positive in the 14 days before they were admitted. 43% testing positive within 2 days of admission, and the remaining 13% testing positive outside that timeframe, which they acknowledge will include people who catch the virus in hospital.
Those figures dont surprise me, and via that data leak the Telegraph still has no idea how many of the 43% + 13% were actually in hospital for non-covid reasons, so they have to dig up people like Carl Heneghan to make noises that support their agenda.
Also to support their shit they make it sound like if a large number of people were hospitalised for other reasons and just happened to have Covid then this would magically make the burden on the NHS less than the routine data implies. As opposed to the reality of such patients simply being a different aspect of pandemic shit the NHS has to deal with at some cost to its capacity and ability to treat everyone safely.
I've read enough Telegraph pandemic articles to know that they often employ logic that other media wont touch with a bargepole, but if this sinister emphasis spreads wider then I can still fall back on number of patients who have tested positive and are in mechanical ventilation beds. That isnt necessarily a completely 'pure' statistic either, but I dont really need to know the medical case history of each person receiving that level of care to know that its very bad news for them to be in mechanical ventilation beds and have covid at the same time.