Very interesting, thanks.
Too bad for the poor 25-34s who weren't fully vaccinated and have been hit just as hard in this wave as the last one.
Most 25-34s I know have only just got their 2nd jab or will be getting it v. soon. So we should see admissions go down in that age group 2-3 weeks from now if we're lucky.
I've done some percentage comparisons now of the latest peak compared to the autumn and winter ones.
But note that for this exercise I have only used absolute worst day peak numbers for whichever days in these waves each age group experienced their very highest numbers. A better way of judging the overall burden on each age group would be to count the total admissions, but I cant do that for this wave yet, and there are terrible complications trying to do it for the autumn and winter waves as they hugely overlap.
Compared to the January peak admission figures, I get things like this for the recent July peak:
0-5: 100% (peak of 33 admissions/diagnoses in one day on both occasions)
6-17: 100% (31 on both occasions)
18-24: 100% (64 on both occasions)
25-34: 84.2% (144 this time, 171 last time)
35-44: 52% (119 this time, 229 last time)
45-54: 28.5% (119 this time, 417 last time)
55-64: 18.4% (115 this time, 625 last time)
65-74: 14.2% (102 this time, 718 last time)
75-84: 11.8% (106 this time, 899 last time)
85+: 10% (80 this time, 800 last time)
Like I said, I would prefer to do this with total admissions over the length of each wave, but cannot. It still gives some useful indication I suppose. I've also done plenty of manual work to come up with those figures and there is nobody to check my workings out so who knows if I've made any mistakes.
I guess I'll post the same figures but compared to the autumn peak shortly.
There are a number of things we can draw from this sort of data. We can for example notice how much of the burden has been reduced in older ages, but also how that now means that pretty much every age group above 24 has placed a somewhat similar strain on hospitals this time.