Brace for Panic: Autumn Covid Wave Gets Underway as Covid Hospital Patients Jump 48% in a Week
England’s autumn Covid wave has begun as figures show both infections and virus admissions to hospital are beginning to surge. The Mail has more.
NHS statistics show a 48% weekly uptick in the number of infected patients in England needing treatment, sparking panic among health chiefs.
And the Office for National Statistics, which tracks the size of the country’s outbreak, estimates cases have risen 12% over the space of three days, suggesting pressure on hospitals is nowhere close to peaking. Roughly 860,000 people in England are thought to be carrying Covid.
It marks the first sustained rise since mid-July, when the summer wave peaked and ministers faced calls to bring back pandemic-era restrictions.
Hospitals have been overwhelmed all summer. Care backlogs have amassed to record highs, patients have been killed by ambulance delays and thousands forced to queue 12-plus hours in swamped A&E units.
The never-ending crisis, largely fuelled by a lack of staff, has already forced one NHS trust in Nottinghamshire to start cancelling routine operations. Rationing care is the only way to ensure critically-ill patients get urgent care, bosses said.
Leaders fear the situation will only worsen as routine winter pressures begin to bite, with Covid and flu expected to combine to create a ‘twindemic’…
The rate of daily virus hospital admissions is also increasing, with 7.6 admissions per 100,000 people in the week to September 25th, up from five the previous week. Rates are highest among people aged 85 and over, at 82 per 100,000. This is up sharply from 49.4 and is the highest rate for this age group since mid-August. However, six in 10 so-called Covid patients were primarily admitted to hospital for another ailment – and just happened to test positive.
Health chiefs say the infected still pile pressure on hospitals, because they have to be isolated from patients who are not infected.
Hospitals have already started cancelling scheduled operations amid “extreme pressures” due to “high numbers” of patients showing up at emergency departments and the bed blocking crisis…
With a surge in people seeking hospital care due to Covid, flu and the economic crisis in the coming weeks, the cancellation of more routine operations could be on the horizon. Millions of procedures were cancelled during the first year of the pandemic, as hospitals prepared to treat an influx of those sickened with the virus. And thousands more were cancelled last year – despite the successful vaccine rollout and the virus not posing enough of a threat to bring in tough restrictions.
Any extra stress on the health service is expected to exacerbate its already record low performance.
Nearly 7 million patients in England were already in the queue for routine hospital treatment by July, the latest date figures are available for. The figure equates to one in eight people, including nearly 380,000 who have faced year-long delays…
Separate data from the Zoe Health Study, which is based on symptoms reported by volunteers across the country, suggests one in 32 people in the U.K. had symptomatic Covid at the start of this week, with rates rising in all age groups.
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Just after the jab rollout started, as I predicted.
Also for what it’s worth my father-in-law has just had a hip replacement done privately (he paid to go private) and he was the only patient in the entire wing of the hospital.
You and prob most that read this site.
I had the plague end of July (curiously rather mild symptoms) – daughter and wife stayed plague free. Nonetheless olde daughter (18) has just got a cold as most of her peers at college. But mummy or daddy no. Um?
“I had the plague end of July (curiously rather mild symptoms”
Omicron. Highly infectious, and all those I know who had it would have called it a “cold” were it not for Covid. Also, everybody’s immunity levels to whatever were collapsed by lockdown, so even I, who rarely get colds, had a stinker earlier this year.
Government sponsored sickness. **** that eh?
I suspect that the UK will get through the winter without the re-introduction of Covid Theatre, but some of the European countries may not be so lucky.
Let’s hope so. But I am noticing the reappearance of discarded face nappies on the pavements again. Time to gather them up, and send them to the first politician who “asks” us to wear them? Will dizzy Lizzie try to advocate “stay at home”, minimising contact, deliberately terrifying the public away from the pubs like last Christmas with “the new variant is spreading fast”, even though many people need all the income they can get, thanks to Saint Boris’s economic ruin? And yes, I do think a lot of the blame lies squarely on his head: he chose to lock down, knowing full well it would cause economic carnage.
Bozo us a WEFfer as is Lizzy.
But … never again will we be convinced the vaccine is a solution
Watch the Oracle docu ‘Safe & Effective’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIVZ5ssWB-o
‘With Covid’ or ‘Because of Covid’…?
How many people used to be hospitalised by the flu before we had Covid.? Anyone know.? I know 12,000 to 20,000 was the sort of range of people who died from it each year.
Why does it seem to happen that on Oct 1st every year, the NHS comes to the jarring realisation that they might be dealing with more respiratory illnesses over the next five months. I’d suggest when they get their new office calendar in January, they try to remember to make a note on it..
Roll on Global Warming, I say. Do we have the figures for how many fewer people are going to die from flu when its 2c warmer..?
“Do we have the figures for how many fewer people are going to die from flu when its 2c warmer..?”
We need Pantsdown to knock up a model.
Pantsdown, as you call him (no harm in that, by the way)was unmasked earlier in the week as one of the Wellcome Five…
Yes, I read the article which was deeply concerning. The Wellcome Five have to all intents and purposes been following a traitorous course for over twenty plus years and under the very noses of the corresponding political leaderships.
I don’t think any of us realise how deep the doo-dah we are in.
How about Hatt Mancock? What’s new with him lately?
He is employed by a DIY euthanasia provider, basically a “rep”.
He is, unfortunately, still MP for my beloved West Suffolk, and pardon the vulgarity, but he’s rubbing up against the bottom of Liz Truss’s South-West Norfolk…
Where can we read about the Wellcome Five?
Try these:
https://johnnyvedmore.com/2022/02/08/the-wellcome-5/
https://www.fungimonkey.com/wellcome-5-dynamic-investigation
Thank you
As opposed to knocking up his mistress?
“Why does it seem to happen that on Oct 1st every year, the NHS comes to the jarring realisation that they might be dealing with more respiratory illnesses over the next five months?”
It’s like what happens to – well, gritting, the railways, everything – every December or January, when people look up into the sky and go – “WTF? There’s these zillions of little bits of white stuff falling everywhere!!! What do we do??”
To your other question: “However, six out of 10 people with Covid in hospital is being treated for something else – not Covid-19.” (source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-63088223)
As I suspected. Its a Scare-demic. Even the graph above shows twice this year there have been more than double the cases. The peak seems to last about 6 weeks. “48% rise” is a rather disingenuous figure constructed from a low base….
The classic scare tactic is to use a large percentage figure with a low base number, because most of the UK population don’t seem to understand that a percentage does not exist in isolation but is based on another figure and the smaller that figure the more chance of a high percentage.
I was ‘lucky’ to have that pointed out to me very early in my career. I was in my first marketing job, presenting to the board the sales data on a range of products I was responsible for in the ‘third world’ as it was described then.
I proudly & naively told them “…the sales of Vitavel have increased by 637% compared with last year”. To which the Marketing Director responded, in a very cutting tone of voice “Let me tell you something laddie, 637% of fuck all is fuck all.”
Exit, stage left, a very chastened Brand Manager 🤣🤣
So-called “gritting” is rock salt, a substance in which we were once self-sufficient and even exported, but which is now imported at inflated prices to fuel the unofficial league-table of local authorities’ “I’ve got more than you” competition…PDV pure dried vacuum)Halite.
I’m quite shocked to read that. I remember watching a programme about the massive salt mine on, I think, the East coast of the uk that goes out under the sea. When did that close as an industry? You surely wouldn’t get it cheaper elsewhere.
Why this country isn’t self sufficient in just about everything I don’t know, we are very fortunate to have so much on hand and a temperate climate to go with it, we could really tell the rest of the world to go hang and look after ourselves just fine.
Much loved by the car manufacturers and welding industry !!!
I was working with a bloke two weeks ago who actually worked in the salt industry in Cheshire. He confirmed we are self sufficient in salt but import tons from S. America – I think it was.
And…when supplies run low in London all the Cheshire salt is diverted down there. If Manchester needs salt – tough. London takes priority.
I seem to remember Middlewich (I think – or Winsford?) has the last working salt mine in England. I don’t know if there is a genuine reason for this, or if it is another con like with coal mining.
There’s certainly no shortage of it at present. Last Autumn & Winter were so mild that both the Highways agency and the local council ended up with a surplus. Of course, there could be some accountants around trying to sell it off at inflated prices! SW England to Scotland, perhaps?
It is still being dug up in N Cheshire. I drive past mountains of the stuff whenever I go to Winsford.
I was once quoting to produce a brochure for a company that was manufacturing a product which was rock salt coated with sugar (molasses actually) which was supposed to cut corrosion. No Idea what became of it. I didn’t get the job.
“But…but…the positive patients still need to be isolated from the rest!” Do we do that with the common cold or flu? Of course not. Covid is endemic now, so why not treat it the same way?
If we did that there would be no excuse for the incompetent NHS and that would never do
With a surge in people seeking hospital care due to Covid, flu and the economic crisis
Do they have a vaccine for ‘the economic crisis’ yet?
How many arrive in hospital for something else and only discover they have the mild omicron after testing?
Why not clean the air in hospitals with intense Ultra Violet within air ducting, this should destroy any airborne pathogens like covid, influenza and the economic crisis.
and, as someone has said, are these covid patients recently boosted?
I definitely think that if more people in hospitals could only wear masks then they’d conquer this unforeseeable crisis no problemo.😷🤭
For the steady flow of newly-arrived and awakened folks who are new to Daily Sceptic: Mogwai is joking.
And here’s me thinking using these guys;😁😵🧐, would convey the fact I’m clearly being sarcastic!🤣😂
Thanks for trying though, but I guess some people are a cpl cans short of a six pack. 🤷♀️🥴👍
If only it was just a couple of cans. Most of the mask wearing brigade have only a couple of ring pulls left
LLucky them I have pulled all mine!!!
Beer run next week
👍 👍
Slight problem is they are wearing them super masks. Something a tad awry here. Them there masks must have been badly manufactured. No other answer.
The closest thing they have to a “vaccine” for the self-inflicted economic crisis is…more of the same failed economic policies. Iatrogenic to the max, kinda like the COVID jabs.
Look – please do not ask such sensible questions. Have you no consideration of the lengths the Government has gone to totally mislead you in your best interests?
This is NOT omicron, no more than it is Alpha, Delta, or one of several other obscure variants.
And then there’s the other 200 types of virus that cause a cold, that do not get any limelight or their own special test.🤦♀️
https://www.compoundchem.com/2020/01/22/colds/
As Roy Basch so eloquently put it in “The House of God”, ( Catch 22 for doctors), “If you don’t take a temperature, you can’t find a fever”.
Here we go again! Go ahead and die of something other than covid and you won’t be counted!
Holy moly
…total anti wax propaganda from DS…this cannot be possible….. because the waxines are ultra-effective against hospitalisation…..every fool know!
Or maybe it’s the 6th or 7th booster that’s the charm…all I know is if we just keep having them we WILL flatten that fricken curve…and SAVE THE NHS! ™️
Presumably, the over-cycled pcr still determines a c19 case! Even Fauci in 2020 admitted that at 35 cycles the test was not ‘replication competent’ and would only show ‘dead nucleotides’.
If all respiratory conditions were classified together on hospitalisation (without separating out c19) it would be interesting to see what the overall picture actually Is.
There was bound to be a rise in flu type cases at this time of year. Historically there is a peak in late September, followed by a dip and another rise before or at Xmas. For the NHS to purport this is a new problem, is stretching the credulity of the public with the afliction of having a brain.
PS Taki in the speccie has used a term this morning I have to share…..Onanist-Marxist…awesome.
I think Karl Marx was very often told to go practice a form of onanism, usually when he outstayed his welcome in the library of the British Museum,,,
Is there any ‘flu knocking about?
Another Winter crisis in the NHS?
This has been going on since Adam was a boy and still we pay NHS managers ridiculous sums of money to…err, manage. Surely it must be obvious by now that the recruitment process for senior managers is seriously flawed as the wrong people are being recruited and employed year in year out.
“Something better change.”
Good morning HP. Well there is something is about thats common at this time of year ,its called a cold.I am just at the entrails end of my first one this year .Gone in 4 days with judicious use of Lemsip .No NHS pressure from me .My daughter ,who was up last weekend, has the same .I just do not understand how these pesky Rhinoviruses appear every year at this time Its a mystery.We need some “science” to understand this….
Indeed Sinor. Where’s The $cience when we need it?
..totally obs that you DID NOT have an infection, or it would have had a NAME….…..pants on fire!!
No I missed out and got an old fashioned generically named thing called a “cold”.Been happening for centuries apparently .I do feel shortchanged from not being one of the chosen and having something with a snappy name !!!!
I think you have to take some kind of hypersensitive test for one of those ??
October 1st is the beginning of the so-called new flu year.
Before I retired, I worked with a woman who was addicted to inoculations. She was so boring about the flu jab that I tackled her one day:
She always had one? Yes.
And she’d never had flu?No.
“That’s good then”, I said, “because I’ve never had a flu jab, and I’ve never had the flu, either”.
Peace at last.
In badly managed organisations, such as the NHS and every other state concern, recruitment follows the well known principles of the ‘Mirror Strategy’
The useless manager holds up a mirror to their face and says “that’s the sort of person I need to recruit”.
Are not the quoted figures BS? The clue is in the description: “Modelled daily percentage … testing positive etc” Two in one, in effect. Guessing on the basis of inaccurate techniques is probably worse than betting on the horses.
Who believes that the large number of rhinoviruses, and the other coronaviruses have gone away? And have they cured the ‘flu (although the pharmacy in my local supermarket was advertising ‘flu jabs the other day)? A cynic might say that there is a degree of cross balancing going on in the stats.
Given that we know covid is a seasonal respiratory disease that will return every year and strike the very frail & elderly with virulence, we’ve got 2 options. One is to fund the NHS to deal with this regular seasonal surge. The second is to cut back on healthcare to younger people during the surge – ie to sacrifice younger people for the very elderly. (I guess there’s in theory a third option – not admitting the very frail and elderly with covid to hospital – but I can’t see that option ever being acceptable). We need to have a proper grown up national conversation about whether we want to pursue option 1 or 2. But the government is desperate to avoid this. So doubtless we will see the return of covid theatre- the pathetic pretence that wearing a dirty piece of cloth will magically make reality go away, so we don’t have to make our hard ‘no good answer’ choice. Meanwhile, option 2 is being implemented by the back door. The point of mask theatre is to prevent us noticing this. Which is why it will return & why it needs to be resisted. We can’t have a proper… Read more »
“I guess there’s in theory a third option – not admitting the very frail and elderly with covid to hospital – but I can’t see that option ever being acceptable).”
Oh, I am sure Midazolam Matt could be brought back for this jolly jape.
Spot the cynical comment on what was actually done in early 2020 – option 3 really was the initial measure used, of course. There were even regular ONS publications of local area death stats; no surprise that the numbers reflected the location of care homes and the like.
If the NHS – in its present state – gets more funding, it’ll blossom more diversity managers and contract more inclusion consultants (they’re not yet employing climate change managers and contracting extreme weather event advisors but they’re certainly planning to). There’s a simple, two-fold solution to this apparent conundrum:
Granted, considering that the NHS is a state within the state with an attached pro forma health service upper management would very much like to be rid of, that’s a bit optimistic but maybe, it can eventually be reduced to its proper station.
Whatever it is, it’s not Covid…
Wow so ppl get respiratory disease in winter and die, another reason why a small amount of warming will give a small increase in life expectancy. Let’s hope another big el nino increases global temperatures a bit.
Surge
Uptick
Wave
Overwhelmed
Restrictions
Bingo!
Wait for power cuts to be blamed on lack of staff due to ‘covid’.
I know we all know it already but this is an excellent take-down of the driver of this entire farcical casedemic; the PCR test. When Covid became the first communicable disease that needed zero presentation of clinical symptoms for a person to be classified as ”sick”…A total and utter fraud and the one thing that keeps this scamdemic sh*tshow in motion. LFT and PCR mass testing should be abolished.
https://www.pandata.org/pcr-testing-skewed-and-corrupted-data-on-sars-cov-2-infection-and-death-rates/
Cases are indeed rising, but not at the same rate everywhere. I’ve plotted the most recent seven day case numbers per 100K plotted against triple vaccination levels in each of the LTLA regions of England and the result can be found at https://ibb.co/ygbc6mW
Yes but what’s a case and why are we measuring it
Not everything that can be measured is worth measuring and the results of measuring things are not always meaningful
Will Jones is a superstar but “Autumn covid wave” is really just gobbledygook and we really should not be reinforcing the insane notion that obsessing over some arbitrarily selected low consequence disease has any logic to it
Are you able to plot excess deaths since the vaccine rollout against triple vaccination levels in each of the LTLA regions?
That’s a more timely and relevant question than cases. Excess deaths only took off from about week 15 this year and have been stubbornly high right through to the latest data (week 37). Here is a plot of excessive deaths for weeks 16 through to 30 (the same pattern persists through to week 37):
You’re a star, thank you. How strong is the positive correlation? Strong enough to constitute a smoking gun?
It’s significant and getting a little more so each week. Excess deaths are almost certainly multifactorial, but the vaccines are definitely one of the contributing factors.
Seems to be some sort of pattern here…
How is this possible? I thought wearing face coverings stopped this? Plus the covid vaccines and hand sanitizer? What’s gone wrong? Gee, amazing what problems contracting a cold can do. Quick shutdown the economy and lock yourself in your homes. This cannot continue.
There is something wrong with the science. This cannot happen with an effective vaccine
I know the solution to this problem: Allow each NHS hospital manager to subject as many people getting hospitalized for all kinds of reasons to pointless Sars-CoV2-PCR tests as he wants but he must pay for them himself. This will cause the autumn COVID wave which is again being abused to deny people urgent medical care in order to play pandemic theatre to collapse overnight and then, absolutely nothing which doesn’t happen all the time is going to happen.
Another good idea would be to gather some of these Let the people go lame and blind, COVID is much dearer to us! healthcare-nonproviders together and put them in front of a firing squad. After two years of needless suffering of countless innocent people who actually needed medical help, they deserve it.
I will do my usual logic exercise. If masks work then someone working in hospital shouldnt worry about going into work with covid….
“However, six in 10 so-called Covid patients were primarily admitted to hospital for another ailment – and just happened to test positive.”
Why are we still doing a spurious fraudulent “test” that says on the side of the packet “for laboratory use only not to be used as a diagnostic tool”?
This stupid, stupid test is the only thing that’s keeping this whole ridiculous charade on its feet. Just STOP IT!!!
I despair I really do.
Or perhaps it’s the flu and the CV19 tests are rubbish?