UK Covid death toll

[Protheroe]

"people being admitted with unknown illnesses"

That's not what it says at all, is it?

Err, yes it does. The Telegraph even caveated their article with the below:

"Crucially, this group does not distinguish between those admitted because of severe illness, later found to be caused by the virus, and those in hospital for different reasons who might otherwise never have known that they had picked it up"

You simply can't extrapolate this data into how many cases were caught in hospital as it makes no distinction about how many of those cases were caught outside of hospital and only detected in a hospital.

Is anyone presenting at hospital for a scheduled procedure without having been tested first? Not as far as I know.

If the proportion of scheduled procedures makes up the majority of admissions to hospital then it's not correct to talk about people being admitted with "unknown illnesses" who then test for Covid. There must be substantial transmission in care settings, just as there is for other hospital acquired infections.

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Proth doing his best impression of an ERG / Covid Recovery Warrior, he will be out on patrols with Mark Francios next.

Stick to cowering Dekka