Thread by @1goodtern

Your occasional reminder that you can't judge how much covid is around or how much damage covid is doing in the UK by the numbers of people testing positive or being admitted to hospital or dying.
I've just seen another person admitted today who almost certainly has covid, but the hospital aren't testing or treating them for Covid.

Their spouse tested positive on an LFD this week, and they're now being admitted for 'exhaustion'.
No tests for Covid.

Some hospitals aren't testing people who have a previous covid infection in their notes already.

Some hospitals are encouraging staff not to test and to come in while sick.

It's a shitshow.

Testing looks to me like it has *halved in the last month*, after the ukhsa said they would ramp up testing.

So that was a purebred classic lie that they knew the media would drink down and not look into.

"We're going to increase testing!" + "cases are going down!" should equal 👍

But they lied about the increased testing part.

So, like i said, don't try comparing the figures now even to a month ago, let alone a year ago.