The latest NHS data shows that the seven-day hospital admission rate rose across six out of seven English regions in the week up to 24 December, with London reporting the largest increase, at 62 per cent. Covid bed occupancy rates are also up. Across England, a total of 8,474 patients were in hospital with the disease yesterday, compared to 6,688 a week earlier – a 27 a per cent rise.
However, these trends should be taken with a pinch of salt. “People attempt to die over their turkey before coming to hospital in the few days before Christmas, one doctor tweeted. “Not just for Covid, for everything.” As such, the Covid hospitalisations that we should have seen over the weekend and in the days before are expected to happen all at once during the coming week, steepening those percentage increases.
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