By Charlie Loran • Published: 05 Nov 2020 • 19:40
SIR SIMON Stevens warned that the second wave of the virus “is real and it’s serious” as he set out the grim figures at a Downing Street press conference.
Amid concern over the use of coronavirus data, Sir Simon said the equivalent of 22 hospitals were full of patients with Covid-19.
He pointed to a chart showing under 500 patients were in wards in September, rising to 2,000 in October, and more than 11,000 in November.
“That’s the equivalent of 22 of our hospitals across England full of coronavirus patients,” he said.
“Those are facts. Those are not projections, forecasts, speculation.”
“Those are the patients in hospital today.”
NHS hospitals would typically have 3,000 patients in the hospital on any one day during a very bad winter flu season, with around 7,000 patients who would be having cancer treatment.
Sir Simon said, “This second wave of coronavirus is real and it’s serious.
“The health service has been working incredibly hard to prepare and to catch up on the care that was disrupted during the first wave.”
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This is a play on words, there are more than eleven thousand patients of which how many are C19? From his own words that is a normal seasons of just under four days. What is the death day rate compared to a low, normal and high season? This is tantamount to the display of the three stooges on statistics and projections to the masses, Boris, Whitey etc. Even on their displays it could be seen there was a false narrative of above worst case scenario, under the age of sixty fours ten deaths per one hundred thousand. Shut the country down stop business.
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