🚨🚨 @Tobias_Ellwood - ‘The people who are filling up our hospitals are those who choose not to get jabbed’
FACT CHECK
➡️ 6% of general beds have patients with Covid - 20% for critical care beds
➡️ According to UKHSA 46% of patients admitted with Covid were unvaccinated.
First point is to remember the vast majority of patients in hospital are not in with Covid at all. The number of patients in hospital with Covid significantly lower than this time last year too - 59% lower.
Overall more patients in hospital due to catch up of missing healthcare.
Second point is that there are more Covid patients in hospital who are vaccinated than unvaccinated. Is this a surprise?
Well the vast majority of people in the country are vaccinated so no.
If you look at rates, unvaccinated more likely to be admitted.
If you look at ICU and vaccination status, latest estimates from ICNARC tell us 48% of patients in ICU with Covid are unvaccinated.
This is data from November and we do not have an updated picture.
🚨🚨 The Covid19 case rate per 100k people has gone over 1000 for the first time in Wales since the start of the pandemic.
Its likely it was higher at the start in March 2020 but there was very little testing happening.
The Welsh Government are not updated hospital figures over the Xmas period but going into Xmas the number of #Covid19 patients in welsh hospitals were at a 3 month low and 83% lower than this time last year.
With the new #Omicron variant cases will become an even less important metric other than people being unable to work due to self isolating.
We are seeing more patients in England admitted with Covid but not in because of it.
Many won't have a clue who she is but she is Labour member of the Senedd who is the Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport. The party that has just closed sports attendance down for many in Wales.
If you do want to pop over to the website you can also read the scientific advice claiming deaths because of #omicron would result in them being over double the peak of last year - nonsense if you factor in the vaccine programme.
This blog explains differences in results you get either using information from ONS to get population size, or the National Immunisation Service (NIMS).
The ICNARC report quoted by Daily Mail using ONS data.
60x headline does not refer to the whole population - its much lower for other age groups, and possibly lower for 60 to 69 age group if different estimates for unvaccinated are used
Putting that aside, all evidence is unvaccinated more likely to be admitted to hospital and ICU