Herald’s Tom Gordon reveals hospital-acquired coronavirus cases in NHS England THREE TIMES higher than in NHS Scotland

In the Herald today, based on Scottish Government figures released ‘after being pressed by the Herald’ (Don’t snigger):

It also means six per cent of all of Scotland’s confirmed Covid cases first became ill in hospital after being admitted for a different reason.

A quick search finds these NHS England figures in the Guardian on 17th May:

Up to 20% of hospital patients with Covid-19 caught it at hospital. Up to a fifth of patients with Covid-19 in several hospitals contracted the disease over the course of the pandemic while already being treated there for another illness, NHS bosses have told senior doctors and nurses.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/17/hospital-patients-england-coronavirus-covid-19

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6 thoughts on “Herald’s Tom Gordon reveals hospital-acquired coronavirus cases in NHS England THREE TIMES higher than in NHS Scotland”

  1. Yet at the same time the opposition parties, MSM and various charities/lobbying groups are constantly hectoring the SG about starting up Clinics and non-Covid NHS operations etc.

    However high or low the figure is for hospital acquired* Covid infections the numbers demonstrate why the start-up of routine NHS activities must be gradual. But that is not something the critics of the delay in start-up will acknowledge. They treat each as separate issues with which to beat the SG.

    *People are infectious particularly in the 24-48 hours before symptoms appear so may be admitted to hospital and then infect other patients and staff . Hospitals have tried to keep green and red zones but with the best will in the world lapses occur.

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    1. This is exactly the same reason that elderly people who no longer required medical care in hospitals were found places in care homes. Not only to free up beds but to remove them from an environment that was certain to be dealing with multiple Covid-19 cases.

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  4. Hmmmm.

    “Nick Stripe
    @NickStripe_ONS
    ·
    5 Jun
    The balance of evidence so far points to undiagnosed COVID in the elderly being the most likely explanation for a majority of excess deaths that did not mention CV on certs

    This fits: demography, locations, esp where testing was sparse, causes of death & timings of peaks

    Nick Stripe
    @NickStripe_ONS
    ·
    5 Jun
    Dementia increases are so sharp it’s implausible that they are unrelated to COVID

    They generally affect the very old, they would tend to impact women to a greater extent than men simply due to pop structure. Especially once care home epidemics took hold with ltd testing

    Nick Stripe
    @NickStripe_ONS
    ·
    5 Jun
    – Most notably, they show v significant increases in deaths due to Dementia & Alzheimer Disease and for deaths due to old age & frailty (“signs, symptoms and ill-defined conditions”)

    Deaths with these causes account for two thirds of all “non-COVID” excess deaths”

    “Jamie Jenkins
    @statsjamie
    ·
    18h
    Update: Up to the 04 June 2020, estimate 67,810
    excess deaths (above average) related to the #Covid19 UK pandemic.

    This is 68% higher than the official Government number as that does not include people not tested.”

    http://www.progressivepulse.org/politics/covid-19-is-the-uk-response-improving

    “In Fig. 4 excess z-scores for Britain and Ireland are plotted. The average z-score from week 10-20 are:

    England 19.89
    Scotland 7.63
    Wales 7.07
    Northern Ireland 3.31
    Ireland 0.84……

    ….It’s worth noting that outside the main cities of Dublin and Cork the highest numbers of Covid cases in Ireland occurred in the border region, notably in County Cavan, suggesting that Ireland’s figures may include adverse effects of having two different public health regimes with different guidance (e.g., 7 and 14 day isolation periods in NI and IE respectively)…..

    ..England 19.89
    Spain 11.9000
    Belgium 11.2700
    Italy 8.5300
    Sweden 6.9000
    Norway 0.1900
    Spain and Belgium are more or less tied at 2nd place. England once again is a clear “winner”, approaching a score double the worst in the EU.

    The contrast between Sweden and Norway is very stark. It seems Sweden is taking a gamble, let’s hope it pays off….

    ….Cummings uses the rule of thirds. It goes something like this. One third of the people you must twist up into a storm of righteous anger. You do this by convincing them they have been betrayed. They are your third. The other two thirds are your enemies and must be driven apart. To do this, make them confused. Destroy their will to fight. And do not forget to keep your third on the boil. They will respond with unblinking loyalty. Cummings and Johnson are the classic double act. Johnson distracts, so the real business of corruption can go on.
    For it to work, we need the carefully cultivated third angry. How? By pushing their buttons. They are huge and well-defined buttons in England. Just lift the safety guard and press. They are marked Xenophobia, Patriotism, and Exceptionalism. Press, press, press!…

    …..The real story is the huge transfer of government assets to private companies that he is overseeing under cover of a pandemic while restructuring the Cabinet Office into his & Michael Gove’s private fiefdom. ”

    https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/under-pressure-uk-government-releases-nhs-covid-data-deals-big-tech/

    “Hours before facing court proceedings from openDemocracy over its massive NHS COVID-19 data deal with private tech firms, the UK government has caved to pressure and released all the contracts governing its deals with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and controversial AI firms Faculty and Palantir.

    The contracts, released to openDemocracy and tech justice firm Foxglove today, reveal details of what has been described as an ‘unprecedented’ transfer of personal health information of millions of NHS users to these private tech firms.

    Significantly, the contracts reveal that the Dominic Cummings-linked firm Faculty is being paid more than £1m to provide AI services for the NHS. The documents also show that terms of that deal were changed after initial demands for transparency were made by Foxglove under the Freedom of Information Act.

    The contracts show that companies involved in the NHS datastore project, including Faculty and Palantir, were originally granted intellectual property rights (including the creation of databases), and were allowed to train their models and profit off their unprecedented access to NHS data.”

    https://fedtrust.co.uk/brexit-how-no-deal-became-the-bookies-favourite/

    “There are undoubtedly members of the Johnsonian court consciously seeking a “no deal” Brexit as a purifying and revolutionary episode. They will probably be telling him that the economic catastrophe of the Coronavirus will dwarf and conceal the only slightly lesser catastrophe of a “no deal” Brexit. It would be a fitting, if tragic end to the first phase of the Brexit saga if those who persuaded the British electorate in 2016 that Turkey was about to join the EU, that Brexit would liberate £350m per week for the NHS and that the UK had no control of its borders within the EU now sought to persuade the British electorate that the disruption caused by a “no deal” Brexit was in fact simply the consequence of the Coronavirus, with a side order of intransigence from the European Commission. The Brexit project was one conceived in lies and cynicism. Its adolescence in 2021 will almost certainly display the same toxic components – in compounded form.”

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