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Latest ONS estimate is that 1 in 20 people in Croydon are infected.
This is a huge number to be infected simultaneously especially for a region that was hard hit in spring.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/8january2021
This is a huge number to be infected simultaneously especially for a region that was hard hit in spring.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/8january2021
Many of these positive cases are either coming to hospital with a COVID label or acquiring one on arrival there. Croydon is hard hit in terms of COVID in hospitals compared with the rest of the country.
Yet the increase in COVID patients has been matched by a perfect decrease in non-COVID patients meaning the spare capacity is still present in the system. This is not to say that the staff aren't hugely stressed thanks to staff shortages, PPE, fear and treating some real COVID.
COVID deaths have replaced non-COVID deaths.
The pressures on hospitals may well result in regional excess deaths. However, there are no excess deaths overall to match the deaths being attributed to COVID which is suggests misdiagnosis.
The pressures on hospitals may well result in regional excess deaths. However, there are no excess deaths overall to match the deaths being attributed to COVID which is suggests misdiagnosis.
