Saturday, January 8th, 2022, 5:00 pm
Uncomfortable Facts: The UK’s COVID-19 Hospital Occupancy More Than Doubled in Just 10 Days, Based on NHS Data (Updated)
Filed under: We’re at a similar point now to December 17th of last winter while the government — in its latest face-saving move — underplays the severity and urgency of the latest variants:
You can see January 2022 on the far right (above). First few days shown.
As per the official figures*:
06-01-2022 18,454 05-01-2022 18,015 04-01-2022 17,311 03-01-2022 16,325 02-01-2022 15,140 01-01-2022 14,508 31-12-2021 14,187 30-12-2021 13,170 29-12-2021 11,985 28-12-2021 10,942 27-12-2021 9,788 26-12-2021 8,770
Compare to last winter:
18-12-2020 19,117 17-12-2020 18,970 16-12-2020 18,671 15-12-2020 18,216 14-12-2020 18,246 13-12-2020 17,538 12-12-2020 16,909
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* Daily count of confirmed COVID-19 patients in hospital at 8am, and 7-day rolling average. Data from England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland may not be directly comparable as data about COVID-19 patients in hospitals are collected differently. Data are not reported by each nation every day. The UK figure is the sum of the 4 nations’ figures and can only be calculated when all nations’ data are available.
Update: Belatedly, NHS just caught up with the missing dates (about an hour ago, adding about 3 missing days). Here are the latest numbers:
10-01-2022 19,828 09-01-2022 19,056 08-01-2022 18,619 07-01-2022 18,697 06-01-2022 18,527 05-01-2022 18,064 04-01-2022 17,345 03-01-2022 16,356 02-01-2022 15,167 01-01-2022 14,533 31-12-2021 14,207 30-12-2021 13,184 29-12-2021 11,998 28-12-2021 10,952 27-12-2021 9,795 26-12-2021 8,776
So in two weeks or in 15 days, the UK’s COVID-19 hospital occupancy increased from 8,776 patients to 19,828 patients.
