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Feb 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨🚨 Chair of the British Medical Association Council - ‘At the moment we have 50% more people in hospital than we had when Plan B was announced’

FACT CHECK

➡️ Since Omicron more in patients in hospital with Covid but not for it. Accounting for this, 7% less, not 50% more.

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These statistics relate to patients with Covid in hospital. You can see in this chart that since Omicron we have seen more patients in hospital with Covid but not primarily because of it.
Also the number in hospital on ventilated beds, a more important metric is the lowest since early July.
The last few months has seen a barrage of misinformation across the media from presenters and contributors. This thread highlights what I have encountered although I never started looking before December.

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Feb 18
📻📻 BBC debunking stats from campaign charity LongCovidKids on risk of children being hospitalised due to #COVID

➡️ Contributor - More than 50% of children admitted to his paediatric hospital admitted with virus but not because of it - every child screened for it
The full show is available here.

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Many people have really being scaring parents through the pandemic with posts. My recent blog explained that through the Omicron wave there were fewer children overall in hospital then before it.

statsjamie.co.uk/continue-with-…
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Feb 5
🚨🚨 NHS England video - ‘136 children in the UK have died of Covid 19 since the beginning of the pandemic’

FACT CHECK ❌❌

➡️ Numbers at least half and totally irresponsible for an official body to be making up statistics which others are quoting

Blog talks through the numbers here

statsjamie.co.uk/medics-mislead…
Full Fact also highlighting this is nonsense fullfact.org/online/133-cov…
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Feb 5
🚨🚨 Professor Alice Roberts (Broadcaster and Indie Sage member) - ‘136 children have sadly died of COVID in the UK’

FACT CHECK

💥 Quoting numbers at least more than double reality and misleading ❌❌

I explain the numbers in a new blog - statsjamie.co.uk/medics-mislead…
I took an image of the above tweet because when I challenge the facts of Indie Sage members they have blocked me in the past.

Link to blog here

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Her claims on hospitalisation also fail to give any context.

To make informed choices, parents need to have facts, and not ones that mislead, be that deliberate or not.

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Feb 4
🚨🚨 Between Mar 20 & Dec 21 there were 140,831 deaths registered due to #Covid19

◾️ 39 were among children aged 0 to 15 accounting for 0.03% of Covid deaths. Over the same period 6,123 children died from all causes.

◾️ 87.3% of Covid deaths were in people aged 65 and over
This chart breaks down the deaths due to Covid in children aged 0 to 15 in England and Wales by month from March 2020 to December 2021
Data available here -> ons.gov.uk/file?uri=%2fpe…
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Feb 2
Hi @TwitterSupport I did a fact check if an NHS Doctor putting out false information on a broadcast last night.

I linked to the official Government data in the thread.

Can you explain why you have stopped replies and people sharing claiming its misinformation?
The post makes no claims on the effectivness of vaccines and just points out the official UK Government agency data which is contrary to the false claims by a doctor that noone dies from when vaccinated @TwitterSupport
This what was said which is contrary to the information put out in the tweet of mine.
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Feb 1
🚨🚨 NHS GP on GB News - ‘The vast majority of them [in hospital] are going to be unvaccinated. Nobody dies from the Omicron variant if you've been vaccinated’

FACT CHECK ❌❌

➡️ Deaths with Covid within 28 days, 78% had a vaccine & 70% admitted to hospital vaccinated
Both of his claims are completely false you can find the data referred to in the previous tweet in the UKHSA report (pages 44 and 45).

They are based on the data in the 4 weeks from week 52 of 2021 to week 3 of 2022.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
Two people with similar characteristics you are less likely to be admitted if vaccinated (and die) but it varies significantly depending on personal circumstances.

But medics claiming you do not die if vaccinated when most of the deaths are in this group is irresponsible.
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