Yeah there has been some more info posted on that recently showing that a greater and greater share of the covid hospital numbers are now being made up by 'incidental admissions' - those that were admitted for other reasons than covid. This is from the BBC live feed today:
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The total number of people in Covid beds in acute trusts in England stood at just over 8,300 on 28 December, with about two-thirds of those people being treated primarily for their Covid.
The total number has risen by more than by more than 2,400 since the end of November - and most of that rise has come in the last week.
Before Omicron, we would have expected any growth to be split roughly along historical lines - that is mainly in people being treated for their Covid.
That is not happening – the growth has been roughly evenly split by people being treated for Covid (up by 1,262) and people being treated for something else but who have coronavirus (up by 1,191).
So “with Covid” beds are taking up a larger and larger proportion of the total: up from about 25% at the end of November to 33% at the end of December.
This is what would be expected for an infection that is generally milder but more infectious.
Doctors stress that someone “with Covid” still presents treatment challenges: they could be in for a broken leg that has nothing to do with Covid, but still require isolation to prevent outbreaks.
Or they could be someone whose stroke was brought on or made worse by Covid and whose treatment becomes more complicated because of it too.
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Also worth noting that I don't believe there has yet been any increase in the number of patients on ventilators