17,709 Patients with Covid in English hospitals at 8am this morning, up 1k+ on yday - now at levels only previously seen for the absolute peak 9 days in April - different measure from admissions which is lower... 
Wales on this measure, well above peak in April of 919 since early November, now at 1585...
Interesting that there are almost zero excess deaths in care homes (England & Wales) in second wave... 1000 a week at home consistently for months and in past couple of months in hospitals.... 20 weeks of negative excess deaths in hospitals June to October...
middle chunk of negative hospital excess deaths of around just under a thousand a week from june to early October... at same time as positive ones in homes...statistical pattern here pointing towards 13-14000 people in the lull between the waves dying at home rather than hospital
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