🚨🚨 @Anna_Soubry - ‘The terrible misinformation being spread...which is blatant lies. We know the overwhelming majority of people in hospital on the covid wards... are people unvaccinated’

FACT CHECK ❌

➡️ Latest data - 46% of patients admitted with Covid unvaccinated
If Anna Soubry is going to go on Sky News attacking misinformation and saying tough measures should be taken against it then she seriously needs to get her maths correct.

It is quite frankly embarrassing for her to say what she did and get the numbers wrong.
Yes more misrepresentation of the facts on Sky News.

This thread captures some of the highlights over the past month of misinformation across the mainstream media.

Needless to say the facts given to the public are not what the data shows.
Remember the vast majority of people in the population are vaccinated, including the elderly who make up most hospital patients.

Unvaccinated are over represented in hospital but its not true to claim vast majority on wards are unvaccinated.

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More from @statsjamie

5 Jan
🚨🚨 Covid19 cases in Wales are up 78% week on week.

Both cases per 100k and the positivity rate (% of tests positive) at record reported levels.

➡️ Cases less relevant with #Omicron so much more transmissible - patients in intensive care up to 36 from 32 (55 unoccupied beds) Image
Wales - 14% increase in past week in #Covid19 patients in ventilated beds & 72% lower than last year

➡️Patients in general beds up 88% but 63% lower than last year

Deaths linked to #Covid19 in Wales have been trending down for about 6 weeks and currently 92% lower than this time last year.

With significant rises in cases and daily figures those reported with a positive test - total deaths from all causes will be a better metric this winter Image
Read 6 tweets
5 Jan
🚨🚨 @rickedwards1 reading a text from listener on BBC 5 live - ‘The unvaccinated are blocking the hospitals impose vaccine passports everywhere’

➡️ Do they read any old misinformation these days?

➡️ Where are the facts that unvaccinated are blocking up hospitals?
For the latest week there are just under 1 in 5 patients in critical care have Covid19 - regardless of vaccine status.

There are more unoccupied beds than Covid patients.

46% of admissions with Covid overall are unvaccinated.

In Wales the average age of Covid patients is 74
I have had two vaccines myself and not opposed to them at all. Get the booster if you want one - if your vulnerable they can be the difference between serious illness or not.

But the media keep peddling attacks on unvaccinated every day with false information.
Read 4 tweets
4 Jan
🚨🚨 Boris Johnson - ‘To travel to some countries you need a booster to be considered fully vaccinated and its likely within weeks this will become the norm’

➡️ He is quite clearly about to remove the Covid pass from millions who are double vaccinated if they do not get booster
A booster wont stop you catching Covid-19 or passing it on. Its is a milder variant and millions also had Covid.

Absolute nonsense to mandate everyone to have a booster to live their lives for a variant that is significantly less worse to put an impact on NHS.
My point about Boris Johnson does not relate to other countries asking for it - its when he changes it in this country to go to the theatre etc.
Read 4 tweets
4 Jan
🚨🚨Covid19 cases in Wales are up 77% week on week.

Both cases per 100k and the positivity rate (% of tests positive) at record reported levels.

➡️ Cases have less relevance with #Omicron so much more transmissible - patients in intensive care unchanged most recent data Image
Wales - little change the past week in #Covid19 patients in ventilated beds & 73% lower than last year

➡️ Patients in general beds up 55% but 74% lower than last year

Deaths linked to #Covid19 in Wales have been trending down for about 6 weeks and currently 92% lower than this time last year.

With significant rises in cases and daily figures those reported with a positive test - total deaths from all causes will be a better metric this winter Image
Read 6 tweets
3 Jan
🚨🚨 Latest Denmark data shows unvaccinated make up a smaller proportion of #Covid19 admissions with #Omicron than previous variants

➡️ Of the 454 with known vaccination status, 24% of admissions unvaccinated vs 45% for previous variants.
➡️ Omicron is also less likely to result in a hospital admission - remember these numbers include people who are admitted with Covid-19 but may be treated for other things.

Also includes those who catch the variant in hospital.
It may be that there is a higher proportion of people who are vaccinated in hospital with Omicron because its a milder variant and we are just picking up people in hospital with it rather than for it.

Vaccination rates higher in older people who need treatment for other things.
Read 5 tweets
2 Jan
🚨🚨 Child hospital patients - #Covid19 is not leading to a rise

➡️ Recent rise in children with Covid19 in hospital coincides with fall in overall patients. Likely many in for other reasons but test positive.

My blog looks at the latest stats 👇👇

statsjamie.co.uk/child-hospital…
As more people catch Omicron, it is important we distinguish between those admitted because of the virus and those who have Covid-19, but the reason for hospital treatment is something else.
If we look at the average admissions per day from early December, the total number of children in hospital remained flat until the middle of December and has since fallen, no doubt linked to the Christmas period and fewer admissions for some planned medical procedures.
Read 4 tweets

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