Thursday, October 6th, 2022, 4:15 pm
New NHS Data: COVID-19 Hospitalisations at Start of October 2022 Are 3+ Times Worse Than in 2020 and Twice as Bad as Last Year
Filed under: Late release of data notwithstanding (and missing data from Scotland), here we see how bad things have gotten. Compare new confirmed cases in the first 5 days (we don’t have a week yet) of October, split over the 3 years:
2020
5-10-2020 14,218
04-10-2020 9,966
03-10-2020 9,820
02-10-2020 11,719
01-10-2020 11,444
2021
05-10-2021 32,268
04-10-2021 36,476
03-10-2021 27,137
02-10-2021 21,873
01-10-2021 24,134
2022
05-10-2022 5,990
04-10-2022 9,098
03-10-2022 10,249
02-10-2022 8,400
01-10-2022 6,441
Now compare to hospitalisations:
2020
03-10-2020 386
02-10-2020 371
01-10-2020 368
30-09-2020 328
29-09-2020 310
28-09-2020 308
2021
03-10-2021 577
02-10-2021 549
01-10-2021 520
30-09-2021 552
29-09-2021 625
28-09-2021 596
2022
03-10-2022 1,344
02-10-2022 1,262
01-10-2022 1,091
30-09-2022 870
29-09-2022 1,158
28-09-2022 1,134
Hospitalisation rate up 33% in the past week alone.
Meanwhile Google is purging many voices in YouTube. Here’s an hours-old video about symptoms:
The numbers of cases go up sharply, based on the ZOE health study:
Based on 2021 infections (data), we still — or currently — have about 4,000 more people scarred with “Long COVID” every day. Recovery isn’t enough to avoid long-term health problems.
