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When talking about hospital data (below), the big picture of overall COVID admissions and occupancy often mask the extremely serious situation in critical care units.
So here's a short look at critical care bed occupancy trends. 1/5 https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1358015867733356544?s=20
When talking about hospital data (below), the big picture of overall COVID admissions and occupancy often mask the extremely serious situation in critical care units.
So here's a short look at critical care bed occupancy trends. 1/5 https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_Maths/status/1358015867733356544?s=20
The percentage of critical care beds occupied in most English regions has decreased week on week (orange dots are week ending 31 Jan and grey dots the week before). But this percentage occupied figure masks the true picture... 2/5
If we look at the actual number of beds occupied we still see falls, but the numbers are way, way up on this time last year (grey diamonds).
London has around double the critical care beds occupied now compared to last year. 3/5
London has around double the critical care beds occupied now compared to last year. 3/5
Looking at the number of critical care beds occupied (dashed lines) vs capacity (full lines) it's clear to see capacity has increased significantly this year (blue) in comparison to last year (orange). 4/5
The only reason we haven't breached capacity is because we've had to increase the number of critical care beds massively by repurposing other parts of hospitals that wouldn't usually be CCUs.
Occupancy currently sits at around 150% of last year's capacity. 5/5
Occupancy currently sits at around 150% of last year's capacity. 5/5
With thanks to Bob Hawkins for preparing the excellent graphs to illustrate this thread.
