The last day of June 2023 marked the 1,200th day since the start of the ‘pandemic’. Since March 20th, 2020, Covid hospital admission data has been reported on the Government’s Coronavirus Dashboard. In the first 600 days there had been 496,693 Covid hospital admissions in England. Oddly, in the second 600 days, there were 548,676 Covid hospital admissions. That’s right, hospital admissions were 10% higher in the period after vaccine take-up in the vulnerable groups had passed the 95% level.
It’s almost as if 230 million vaccine doses, the imposition of countless non-pharmaceutical interventions and spending £500 billion on ‘Covid support’ programmes made no difference to hospital admission numbers.
But, of course, things that run against the ‘narrative’ are commonplace and usually go unremarked. I confess that as time passes, I forget just how bonkers it all was. For example, in addition to our own Sages, we had Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO of Pfizer, along with Gates, Biden, Fauci, et al., telling us throughout 2021 that vaccines stopped transmission. I’m sure, like me, you’ll still hear people say, “But they never said that vaccines would stop transmission.” Then please tell me, what was the point of a vaccine passport if it was understood that vaccination didn’t stop transmission? Like so much else, it’s been memory-holed.
Just as a quick reminder, here’s Our World in Data’s chart for ‘confirmed cases’. Bearing in mind that the vaccine rollout was largely complete by the summer of 2021, isn’t it odd that cases peaked in January 2022 at over three times the previous high?
Figure three shows two charts from Our World in Data. On the left, we have cumulative vaccine shots. On the right ‘new cases’ per million of population.
November 11th, 2021, marked the 600th day since the start of the pandemic. By then we’d injected 160 doses of vaccine per 100 of population. Among the elderly and vulnerable, over 95% were reportedly ‘fully vaccinated’, and most had received at least one booster shot. As cases peaked on January 5th, vaccine doses had reached 199/100 of population. Clearly, vaccines didn’t do much to stop transmission!
However, this article isn’t about ‘cases’; it’s about hospital admissions. Once it was understood that vaccines did nothing to stop transmission, the narrative shifted: “Vaccines might not stop transmission, but they stop you being hospitalised or dying.” I, along with many others, including the ONS, have demonstrated that vaccination made no ‘real-world’ difference to your chances of dying of Covid. An article I wrote in the Daily Sceptic published on July 27th, 2022, pointed out that: “ONS data on deaths by vaccination status show that of the 5,678 Covid deaths in April and May 2022, 93% were of vaccinated people.” Given that significantly less than 93% of the population were vaccinated, this wasn’t a great result for vaccine supporters. But, until now, I hadn’t looked at hospital admissions.
As figure one (above) illustrates, there were more Covid hospital admissions after the vaccine rollout than before. But, so the narrative goes, people hospitalised after vaccination were hospitalised ‘with’ Covid, not ‘because’ of Covid. Let’s test that one.
When Sajid Javid replaced Matt Hancock as Health Secretary in June 2021, he was keen to differentiate between hospital patients admitted due to complications from Covid and those who were admitted primarily for something else but who incidentally tested positive for Covid. The results can be viewed here. There are four reports, starting from June 18th, 2021, with data going up to the end of May 2023. Figure four presents the data as a chart.
Looking at the grey line related to the percentage scale on the right, we can see that the percentage of admissions ‘primarily’ due to Covid hovered around the 75% level from June 18th, 2021, until early December 2021. Through the winter of 21/22, this percentage declined dramatically until it stabilised at around 35% in April/May 2022. So, what happened through late 2021 and early 2022 that caused the number of Covid hospital admissions to go from ‘primarily’ admitted due to Covid to where Covid was an incidental diagnosis for 65% of them? Was it vaccination? No. Vaccines had been rolled out a year earlier back in winter/spring 2021. It was Omicron.
As figure five shows, Omicron went from 1% of all cases on December 6th, 2021, to 99% of all cases by January 31st, 2022. Clearly, the change in the proportion of patients hospitalised due to Covid over the period covered by these NHS reports didn’t reduce due to vaccination but due to the milder nature of the prevailing Covid variant.
Any impact the vaccines may have had on hospital admissions occurred prior to Sajid Javid’s drive to collect data on the reason for admission. From when these data started being collected, on June 18th, 2021, figure four shows us that about 75% of hospital admissions were ‘primarily’ due to Covid. The critical question is, can we get data on the primary cause of hospital Covid admissions prior to that date?
A paper produced by SAGE on behalf of the Government looked at nosocomial infections up to the end of July 2020. It estimated that about 75% of Covid admissions were ‘for’ Covid rather than ‘with’ Covid. Covid hospital admissions varied significantly with seasonality and whatever other factors affect rates of transmission, but it seems likely that the ‘primary’ diagnosis of Covid stayed fairly stable at around 75% right through 2020 and 2021, up to the point in December 2021 when Omicron arrived.
Clearly, the main takeaway is that as with ‘cases’ and deaths, it was the arrival of Omicron rather than the rollout of vaccines that made the difference.
But you have to admit, it’s a great pub-quiz question: when were there more Covid hospital admissions, in the first or second 600 days of the pandemic?
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I far preferred the Glen Miller Band.
Or the Steve Miller band,
The square root of FA of course.
The square root of -1 – it’s imaginary
Yeah – but useful. Unlike Miliband Minor (or Major for that matter)
As much as that?
Moribund
There’s no hope for the terminally dim Ed ‘Marxist’ Miliband, he deserves to die hungry and cold like he appears to think that the rest of us should.
The man is a fool.
It would be justice if he suffered as much as his worst-off victims – but he won’t.
He deserves to be kept warm and fed and safe – but his policies will ensure that not everyone will be.
He’s probably aiming to follow Alok Sharma into a highly lucrative role with the Rockefeller Foundation.
There is a serious concern about Ed Miliband’s mental health. So much so there is good case for him to be sectioned. The energy security and financial well being of our country is at stake. Perhaps join Joe Biden in a secure unit.
Okay everyone, join in…”Things, can only get better…”
At least when Miliband has driven the ship up the shore, the oil will still be at the bottom of the sea.
“Government’s Net Zero commitments will cost “hundreds of billions” of pounds. “
I am sure there are better things that the money could be spent on. Like fixing world poverty? Curing cancer?
Cancer cures have been found. Big Pharma don’t want them on the market because current 100 year old treatments rake in so much money.
Charidees like Cancer Research UK are just a racket, income in 2023 £719 million and they have been pulling these amounts for many years. However, they still haven’t found a cure for cancer?
BS.
Donations to charities are just secondary taxation for the gullible.
It only costs hundreds of billions if the requirement is to get a replacement to meet the same demand.
There is already a cure for “world poverty” —-It is called FOSSIL FUELS.
OT:
Some good news for a change: Forced Vaccinations On Our Loved Ones (crowdjustice.com) Mother finally wins in court battle to stop the state forcibly “vaccinating” her son against “covid”
Yes a “win” but what sort of people are they that they would put parents through all this strain and actually suffering.
Line the Next Tuesday’s up.
I’m sure you don’t need to be a parent to feel how despicable these people are, but as a parent I’d be homicidal towards all of them.
Miliband is just an extreme version of the UN and WEF lackey politician that has forced this country in law to reduce emissions to 100% of 1990 levels of CO2 by 2050 with no concern for cost (estimated by the grid to be in the region of 3 trillion) and with no real worry whether the technologies required for this absurdity can do what is proposed or whether new ones could ever be invented. This absurdity is ofcourse known as NET ZERO.
Our Political class are no longer answerable to the people that voted for them. They are just a local administration of the Global Governance via the UN/WEF. The policies they impose on their own citizens are ones desired by that same Supranational Politics that Margaret Thatcher warned about and indicated in her book “Statecraft”. At first Thatcher was onboard with the global warming issue because the Nuclear Energy that she favoured had no CO2 emissions to worry about. But she soon realised that the opportunity for global socialism was the real motivation behind control of CO2, which is the one gas that can be directly tied to Industrial Capitalism and that Climate Change policies were really just the excuse for anti capitalist polices that seek to control the worlds wealth and resources.
Off-T
Sort of…
https://www.thepublica.com/student-in-germany-murdered-by-gang-of-migrants-in-alleged-anti-christian-hate-crime/
Another young lad has lost his life to cultural enrichment. Bastards.
Off Topic….but good to know.—The squirming multi cultural cesspit parasites have no shame
Shit. Somebody just tried to assassinate Trump. It’s the way the signs say ”You’re fired!” then you hear the shots…
https://x.com/FergusPower1/status/1812255109750931734
He’s OK though, thank goodness. Jesus, the Leftards must be really pissed. Trump has more lives than a cat;
https://x.com/GhorbaniiNiyak/status/1812254092850241665
A close-up. Bless him. Brandon and Co need to pay for this. Prepare for all the faux concern from those lying dirtbags. I wonder who the hitman with a dodgy aim is and if they’ve got him yet…Well I reckon we know who’s got that election in the bag now. I just hope the guy can survive that long.
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1812255100053680542
An alternative headline is “One shot dead and two seriously injured at Trump rally”.
Not if, how soon. There will be a lot of pain and wasted money, but the end is inevitable.
We will all feel a great deal of pain socially and financially, but it will be a price worth paying if it ends this falsehood that renewables are cheap and secure.
All those that voted for Labour should be made to pay a premium for the idiocy.
I think he should answer a questions that senator Kennedy asked ” How much money will it cost? What time period? How many degrees lower do you expect these measures to cause?” These scammers expect this country to self destruct while those countries that will be producing goods that we find too dirty to make, will grow rich through industry. This is financial suicide. It is about time we started arresting these WEF shills for treason.
Apologies it was for 2050, the YT description is “‘You Don’t Know, Do You? You Don’t Know, Do You?’: Kennedy Does Not Let Up On Top Biden Official” “ Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk about the cost of green energy reforms. “
He’s made a good start, IMF by christmas
He’s made a good start. IMF by christmas
That man is an idiot. Hopefully his decisions will cause massive disobedience, disorder and protest. Hopefully that will destroy the communist Labour government.