Hursty I noted a change of language when I put the BBC on for ten minutes the other day, when they started using ‘infections’ rather than ‘cases’. So we have 68,000 ‘infections’. Is this a new number for that day, the day before?
The dashboard on the gov website states the last daily figure was 46,169 people tested ‘positive’ (11th Jan 2021), which doesn’t mean to say that they are infectious. I struggle with the media terminology to put everyone in a state of paralysis and the data on daily cases/infections not being consistent.
I have a close friend whose wife works at NHS Coventry hospital in a Covid ward and spends a lot of time getting PPE’ed up and down in and out of her ward. Some die, some go home and some in/out of ICU depending on condition. I also have a very close friend who works as senior finance director for NHS Birmingham who said a week ago that in April they had 4000 beds in ICU taken up and now have 2000 beds taken up (ICU being distinct from Covid wards I hasten to add - no figs from her for Covid wards). So, for the Midlands area I don’t know what to believe… maybe the nurses can do this week’s ward dance/TikTok video to Trisco’s Musak and upload it…
