Healdplace
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Agreed that much is clear from how modestly the numbers are rising even in the North West in the hospital data I post every evening here.Yup - and hidden in the data is the anecdotal evidence from the NHS that those that do end up in hospital this time round have been less sick and been discharged earlier
Yes they are going up and the NW is far and away the biggest problem but it is not accelerating out of all control.
Three weeks ago there were about 7400 cases in the NW and hospital patients went in that week from 173 in hospital with 21 on ventilators to 192 with 35
By the end of the next week there had been 12,700 and patients were up from 192/35 at 271 with 46 on ventilators
Up to yesterday in the past week there have been about 16,000 new cases and there are 388 in hospital and 79 on ventilators.
It is clearly going up more than any other region and the rate has increased in the past week because of this huge case load But it is not showing a very dramatic rise other than what you would expect with numbers. As there will be a lag between testing and going to hospital.
With the one exception being ventilated patient numbers which are going up more than we should like to see.
As you say a key reason numbers are not escalating upwards is that stays are shorter than they were as these are mostly younger people who recover more quickly.
NW patients went up yesterday by just 9 but 50/60/70 a day have been admitted in past week in the NW.
You can see for yourself there that a lot are going home in order to compensate for the ones going in to show a modest daily increase.
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