[thu2111]

Ah great find. I was looking for UK hospital admissions data.

That's pretty shocking. Pneumonia and respiratory has hardly moved (where is the wave???) yet there's a huge fall in emergency cardiac patients. That's worrying. It implies people having heart attacks are choosing not to go to hospital fast enough, even though they could.

[iso1631]

I'm assuming that half those attendances aren't because of heart attacks, but are to do with routine follow up appointments?

[thu2111]

Isn't this data for emergency admissions only?

[iso1631]

True, "Emergency departments"

https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/369/bmj.m1406.full.pdf

People are ignoring stroke symptoms and failing to ring 999 because they fear being a burden on the NHS in England duringthe covid-19 pandemic, the national clinical director for stroke has warned. Deb Lowe, consultant stroke physician at Wirral University Teaching Hospital, said that doctors across the country were seeing “quite striking reductions” in the number of people coming into hospital with symptoms of stroke. She said, “It appears that people aren’t seeking emergency help or going to hospital when they suspect a stroke, possibly due to fear of the virus or not wanting to be a burden on the NHS.”