BBCNEWS BBC News at Six December 20, 2021 18:10:00
Underreporting. crucially, it is the underlying trend we need to look at, week on week, and cases are up about 61%, but hospital admissions are up a lot less, 6%, week on week. they tend to be a bit of a lagging indicator. it is two which are more from when someone test positive that they are likely to need hospital treatment. the other important fact about hospital admissions is that they are very much concentrated in london in terms of a surge in covid. 1800 patients in hospital, up 500, nearly 500, on the week. that is not replicated in other english regions all the nations. it is fairly fl...
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