Scottish Government Admits That Hundreds of ‘Covid Patients’ Have Been Hospitalised for Other Reasons
The SNP Health Secretary, Humza Yousaf, has admitted that hundreds of Covid patients may have been in hospital for reasons unrelated to the virus.
The SNP Health Secretary, Humza Yousaf, has admitted that hundreds of Covid patients may have been in hospital for reasons unrelated to the virus.
We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by our in-house doctor looking at the latest hospital data. Turns out, staff absences are the reason London hospitals are under pressure, not a surge in Covid admissions.
The Government is unlikely to impose attendance limits on weddings and funerals if further restrictions are imposed.
The latest data from the UKHSA suggests that reported probable Omicron infections in London are already declining.
Analysis of data from England by the UKHSA released today confirms that the Omicron variant is causing less severe illness than Delta, with risk of emergency admission to hospital reduced by 62%.
The former Head of Health Analysis at the ONS has accused Mark Drakeford of deliberately exaggerating the severity of the Omicron variant to justify tighter Covid restrictions.
On December 27th, the Scottish Government will close all nightclubs for at least three weeks.
A pre-print study from South Africa published on Tuesday has found that the risk of being hospitalised with Omicron is just a fifth of the risk with Delta. Yet SAGE continues to call for lockdown.
Professor Eugene Milne, Newcastle's Director of Public Health, has said that Newcastle fans should re-consider going to Sunday's match against Manchester United due to the spread of the Omicron variant in the area.
According to new ONS data, the triple-vaccinated are 4.5 times more likely to test positive for Omicron than the unvaccinated. The double-vaccinated, meanwhile, are 2.3 times more likely to have Omicron.
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