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by native_samples 1614 days ago
As I said above already, hospitalization stats for Omicron don't mean anything. In the UK more than half of all "hospitalized" Omicron cases caught it in hospital and of those, most are asymptomatic.

Yes, people can catch infectious bugs like colds and flu-like illnesses in hospital. It's a building full of sick people, it happens. That doesn't mean there's a crisis in the population.

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> In the UK more than half of all "hospitalized" Omicron cases caught it in hospital and of those, most are asymptomatic

Absolutely not true

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/20/call-scrap-daily...

"Call to phase out statistics comes as it emerges that up to 70pc of virus patients in hospital being primarily treated for other problems"

Please do explain where you got your belief that I'm wrong, because it seems you may be a victim of misinformation.

EDITED: Originally I gave this link, but it's out of date

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/07/incidental-covid...