{"id":212352,"date":"2020-08-22T06:13:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T06:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212352"},"modified":"2020-08-24T06:40:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T06:40:02","slug":"hospital-coronavirus-admissions-were-over-reported-at-peak-of-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212352","title":{"rendered":"Hospital coronavirus admissions were OVER-reported at peak of pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Britons who were suffering from other illnesses were included in data collected to monitor the virus outbreak<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Patients were categorised as Covid-19 admissions if they&#8217;d ever tested positive for the virus, SAGE discovered<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>20,000 people a week were reportedly admitted with Covid-19 at peak of crisis, government statistics show<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kamal Sultan and Stephen Matthews \u2013 Daily Mail Aug 21, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The figures of those admitted to hospital for <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">coronavirus<\/span><\/strong><\/a> during the peak of the pandemic were over-reported, it was revealed last night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Britons who were suffering from other illnesses were included in data collected to monitor the virus outbreak, according to the Daily Telegraph.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Government&#8217;s Science Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) found patients were categorised as Covid-19 hospital admissions if they had ever tested positive for the disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And they were included in the number of people who were admitted specifically for coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Around 20,000 people a week were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 at the peak of the crisis in April, according to government statistics. The correct figure is not yet known.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It comes after a recent review into the way Public Health England (PHE) calculated coronavirus deaths. More than 5,000 people who died from causes unrelated to the virus were initially included in the statistics &#8211; a tenth of the overall death toll.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">One top expert today said the statistical error was more widespread for hospital admissions than deaths &#8211; but told BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme that it was only a &#8216;minor inflation&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The NHS denies the figures were being over-reported nationwide and claimed the miscounting only occurred at one trust.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_212353\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-thousand-people-a-day-were-admitted-to-hospital.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212353\" class=\"wp-image-212353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-thousand-people-a-day-were-admitted-to-hospital-768x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-thousand-people-a-day-were-admitted-to-hospital-768x295.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-thousand-people-a-day-were-admitted-to-hospital-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-thousand-people-a-day-were-admitted-to-hospital.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-212353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Around 3,000 people a day were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 at the peak of the crisis in April, according to government statistics. The correct figure is not yet known. click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8650163\/Hospital-coronavirus-admissions-reported-peak-pandemic.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients with other illnesses were \u201cmistakenly\u201d included in the coronavirus totals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212355,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212352\/revisions\/212355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}