If you think this thing is over, you’ve been conned

HE NHS numbers are out again (they skip weekends to preserve the illusion that this pandemic has been placed on the ice or brought under control). How many COVID-19 patients are in hospitals? The official numbers are 3 days old, so expect over 18,000 by now.

25-03-2022 17,685
24-03-2022 17,463
23-03-2022 17,011
22-03-2022 16,788
21-03-2022 16,376
20-03-2022 15,588
19-03-2022 15,132
18-03-2022 15,061
17-03-2022 14,830
16-03-2022 14,387
15-03-2022 14,222
14-03-2022 13,716
13-03-2022 12,965
12-03-2022 12,587
11-03-2022 12,275
10-03-2022 12,107
09-03-2022 11,915
08-03-2022 11,805
07-03-2022 11,485
06-03-2022 11,012
05-03-2022 10,867
04-03-2022 10,869
03-03-2022 10,673
02-03-2022 10,821
01-03-2022 10,896
28-02-2022 10,936
27-02-2022 10,709
26-02-2022 10,554

Only a month ago it was about 10,000.

How about deaths. Like hospitalisations, they’re nearly doubled. In the past week alone:

Also of note, we’re hitting the highest number of hospitalisations per day since early January (from left to right: Date, followed by number per day, then sum/total to date):

22-03-2022 2,380 777,241
21-03-2022 2,232 774,861
20-03-2022 1,993 772,629
19-03-2022 2,025 770,636
18-03-2022 1,916 768,611
17-03-2022 2,045 766,695
16-03-2022 2,093 764,650
15-03-2022 2,106 762,557
14-03-2022 1,959 760,451
13-03-2022 1,812 758,492
12-03-2022 1,615 756,680
11-03-2022 1,713 755,065
10-03-2022 1,677 753,352
09-03-2022 1,797 751,675
08-03-2022 1,675 749,878
07-03-2022 1,513 748,203
06-03-2022 1,444 746,690
05-03-2022 1,230 745,246
04-03-2022 1,349 744,016
03-03-2022 1,453 742,667
02-03-2022 1,434 741,214
01-03-2022 1,349 739,780
28-02-2022 1,385 738,431
27-02-2022 1,093 737,046
26-02-2022 1,079 735,953
25-02-2022 1,092 734,874
24-02-2022 1,209 733,782
23-02-2022 1,229 732,573
22-02-2022 1,168 731,344
21-02-2022 1,231 730,176
20-02-2022 1,128 728,945
19-02-2022 1,005 727,817
18-02-2022 1,091 726,812
17-02-2022 1,180 725,721
16-02-2022 1,364 724,541
15-02-2022 1,362 723,177
14-02-2022 1,343 721,815
13-02-2022 1,185 720,472
12-02-2022 1,144 719,287
11-02-2022 1,181 718,143
10-02-2022 1,341 716,962
09-02-2022 1,424 715,621
08-02-2022 1,473 714,197
07-02-2022 1,435 712,724
06-02-2022 1,348 711,289
05-02-2022 1,243 709,941
04-02-2022 1,412 708,698
03-02-2022 1,483 707,286
02-02-2022 1,650 705,803
01-02-2022 1,762 704,153
31-01-2022 1,658 702,391
30-01-2022 1,426 700,733
29-01-2022 1,449 699,307
28-01-2022 1,525 697,858
27-01-2022 1,679 696,333
26-01-2022 1,874 694,654
25-01-2022 1,895 692,780
24-01-2022 1,782 690,885
23-01-2022 1,685 689,103
22-01-2022 1,435 687,418
21-01-2022 1,675 685,983
20-01-2022 1,907 684,308
19-01-2022 1,989 682,401
18-01-2022 2,011 680,412
17-01-2022 2,028 678,401
16-01-2022 1,937 676,373
15-01-2022 1,787 674,436
14-01-2022 1,937 672,649
13-01-2022 2,164 670,712
12-01-2022 2,203 668,548
11-01-2022 2,413 666,345
10-01-2022 2,457 663,932

Nice job, Borisnaro. Your “freedom day” has cost the lives of about 30,000 Brits already.

few moments ago today’s COVID-19 figures were released in the official site, indicating 600,000 new cases this past week (599,244 to be precise). Those are just the ones confirmed by the government (not self-testing with home kits and people who experience no symptoms or won’t bother with tests).

As one might expect in light of the sharp rise in hospitalisations, fatalities rose sharply to 950 this past week (26.3% higher than the prior week). So we have about a thousand Brits per week perishing with COVID-19. Hospitals’ capacity is meanwhile impacted; it affects you no matter if COVID-19 is life-threatening to you personally.

The hospitalisations continue to rise steadily and the sum total of people in hospital was 17,440 yesterday. The latest number of admissions reported is for Monday. It was 2,227 — the highest number since January 11^th. If this trend persists, we’ll have the worst numbers in over a year!

Based on historical data, about a quarter of these patients get discharged from hospital… in a body bag.

This morning I published historical data as ODF. So far 2022 has been less deadly (overall) than 2017 and 2018, based on official NHS data. So far this year only 7 people in the age range 0-14 died in England of Wales with/from COVID-19. See sheet (7) here; compare to pneumonia in (4). Suffice to say, the vaccine patent pools wish to give barely-tested vaccines to over 10 million children because over the past ~3 months COVID-19 killed 7 kids. We know these vaccines don’t curb the spread; even the governments and the companies admit this. So why push these to kids? Just money! 7 kids is less than one per week. Some of them did not even die from it but with it. We don’t yet know the long-term side effects, maybe infertility or similar. So keep kids out of it.

earing in mind 2020 and 2021 have warped 5-year averages somewhat, I’ve decided to dig up data from 4 years prior to the pandemic. We have these data sets as OpenDocument Format (ODF):

• 2016
• 2017
• 2018
• 2019
• 2022 (so far)

Let’s examine the figures for the first two months of the years (more recent data from this year can be incomplete).

Year, followed by total number of deaths per week (in England and Wales combined):

2016: 13,045 11,501 11,473 11,317 11,052 11,170 10,590 11,056
2017: 11,991 13,715 13,610 12,877 12,485 12,269 11,644 11,794
2018: 12,723 15,050 14,256 13,935 13,285 12,495 12,246 12,142
2019: 10,955 12,609 11,860 11,740 11,297 11,660 11,824 11,295
2022: 12,262 13,311 12,776 12,401 11,862 11,558 11,271 11,150

Highlighted (bold) is the highest figure for each column.

This shows that 2018 was a lot more “deadly” than this year and the same is true for 2017. We aren’t even attempting to split by cause of death (or attribution). These are just the totals.

Source: ONS

Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0

LMOST APRIL already and it has been 2 years since lock-downs began here in the UK. The numbers of COVID-19-linked deaths are higher this week than they were the same week in 2020. Going by the official government figures…

Yesterday the NHS reported 16,975 people in hospital with COVID-19. The number continues to climb each day. The last time we saw a decrease was almost 3 weeks ago:

23-03-2022 16,975
22-03-2022 16,760
21-03-2022 16,350
20-03-2022 15,565
19-03-2022 15,113
18-03-2022 15,046
17-03-2022 14,816
16-03-2022 14,375
15-03-2022 14,210
14-03-2022 13,705
13-03-2022 12,954
12-03-2022 12,578
11-03-2022 12,267
10-03-2022 12,099
09-03-2022 11,907
08-03-2022 11,798
07-03-2022 11,479
06-03-2022 11,007
-> 05-03-2022 10,862
04-03-2022 10,864
03-03-2022 10,670
02-03-2022 10,818

Deaths have increased 22.2% in the past week alone:

24-03-2022 165
23-03-2022 194
22-03-2022 250
21-03-2022 169
18-03-2022 126
17-03-2022 138
16-03-2022 153
15-03-2022 200
14-03-2022 135
11-03-2022 114
10-03-2022 142
09-03-2022 123
08-03-2022 212
07-03-2022 139
04-03-2022 110
03-03-2022 194
02-03-2022 74
01-03-2022 194

Take the median or sliding average to see the increase, in spite of the NHS altering the definitions to make the numbers seem smaller than they really are.

In terms of the number of new cases, it seems to be the worst Thursday since January.

Deaths reported 23-03-2022: 194 linked to COVID-19
Deaths reported 22-03-2022: 250 linked to COVID-19
Deaths reported 21-03-2022: 169 linked to COVID-19

Deaths reported 23-03-2020: 76 linked to COVID-19
Deaths reported 22-03-2020: 36 linked to COVID-19
Deaths reported 21-03-2020: 58 linked to COVID-19

Source

And cases are still on the rise:

UK cases of COVID-19: still high, still killing almost 1,000 Brits per week

Last Monday

This Monday

ith over 15,000 COVID-19 patients in hospitals and over 2,000 new hospitalisations per day let’s remember that COVID-19 is still right here, right now. Yes, not just in wintertime.

The number of new cases speaks for itself.

I’ve just left the house and got back within less than an hour. I went around town. A lot of people aren’t wearing masks — barely anyone still does — and they wrongly assume that getting infected won’t be doing any real damage. This is a dangerous and erroneous assumption. I know this from people whom I personally speak to and have been infected.

The Borisnaro regime is a bunch of COVIDiots, who put the interests of the “business class” ahead of everybody else’s.

Using Russia and Ukraine to change the subject is becoming an outdated tactic by now. It’s likely that Russia and Ukraine will negotiate for a ceasefire to be reached. You cannot negotiate ceasefires with infectious viruses. They attack again and again. Being infected does not mean “being done with it”…