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Covid-19: Lack of surveillance leaves UK in dark as hospital admissions rise, experts warn
"The UK’s current method of recording covid-19 cases “is not a sensible approach to managing the spread of infection,” virologists have warned. Latest data showed an uptick in the number of UK covid cases and hospital admissions that experts said was “worrying, so early in autumn.”
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“A combination of return to work and school after the summer holidays, cooler weather—more indoor mixing in poorly ventilated spaces—and waning immunity are contributing to the increased spread of the virus,” said Lawrence Young, virologist at Warwick University. “The increased trend in cases of infection and hospitalisations, although still low, are worrying so early in the autumn period.” [emphasis added]
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Young warned that reduced data now collected by the UK on the virus could mean that health officials were flying blind into the winter period. “The lack of routine [covid] testing means we have no idea about the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the general population, making it difficult to predict any future waves of infection,” he said."
Current testing predominantly focuses on hospital patients rather than community or primary care, which Young said could make it “difficult to identify and monitor outbreaks.” He added, “Relying on hospitalisations as a measure of surges in infection is not a sensible approach to managing the spread of infection and planning for pressures on the NHS.”
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https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r2095
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9 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:
Old data counting method above that was phased out and replaced with the COVID death certificates method (deaths from COVID), with all the deaths counted accordingly:
Changes to the way we report on COVID-19 deaths
27 January 2023
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"COVID-19 death registrations should continue to be used as the primary figure for measuring COVID-19 deaths. The number of deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test is no longer recommended.
From the 6 July, we will therefore no longer update the 28 day measure. All previously published data will remain available for download from the GOV.UK COVID-19 Dashboard API.
We are changing the way we present COVID-19 death statistics on the GOV.UK COVID-19 Dashboard. “Deaths with COVID-19 on the death registration” will replace “deaths within 28 days of a positive test” as the primary reported COVID-19 death statistic.
We explained previously how COVID-19 deaths are recorded in the United Kingdom. There are two main reports:
- Deaths within 28 days of a reported COVID-19 infection (deaths with COVID)
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Death where COVID-19 is mentioned on the death registration (deaths from COVID)
https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2023/01/27/changes-to-the-way-we-report-on-covid-19-deaths/
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4 hours ago, connda said:This is what happened with nurse during Covid, and it makes me want to puke. 🤮
Not if you bothered to understand what was going on and what the purposes were, as overwhelmed hospital staff faced long grueling shifts, caring for dying COVID patients and fear of catching the virus themselves on a daily basis:
Health care workers are dancing on social media to cheer up the quarantined and relieve stress
April 20, 2020
(CNN) -- When the beat drops, these health care workers know it’s all about the footwork. Medical professionals across the country are participating in dance challenges on social media. It’s helping them share smiles and blow off steam during the demanding coronavirus pandemic.
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Baker says her challenges, which she films after clocking out, help create solidarity with health care professionals across the country, especially in states hit hardest by coronavirus. She sees it as a way to “bring joy to a really dark place right now.” [emphasis added] “I have never felt more connected with health care workers; we all feel like we are all one big team all over the world,” she explains.
Nurse Jeffrey Salvatore says they often play that song to get motivated at their drive-through testing site. The team started dancing to keep warm while testing outdoors. “It brings us joy,” he tells CNN. “It lightens our spirits while we are testing outside in the cold and in the rain. It is a mechanism we are using to keep our spirits up. “We are all facing the same fears. We have the fear of potentially getting the virus ourselves and potentially bringing it home to our loved ones,” Salvatore says."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/11/world/iyw-health-care-professionals-dance-social-media-trnd
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On 10/21/2025 at 4:19 PM, banglay said:
yeah ! they deliver to your house ... can not pay cash on delivery . you have to pay up front .. but if any of your items are not available they usually contact you ... and they refund money back into your account within 24hrs for any missing item . ..
Actually, you can also pay by bank card after the fact, if you indicate that in the payment method when you place the online order.
I do that for every order, and then after the delivery is complete, the Makro office staff automatically send me a Thai bank payment link either to my TH mobile SMS or my email address on my Makro account, with the weblink to make payment via a VISA or MC bankcard -- in my case, with my home country bank cards.
It works great, though you want to be doing the online payment with a Thai IP, or the local payment system sometimes will reject the payment if attempted with my home country IP.
Unlike Tops delivery, the Makro delivery staff are NOT equipped with the handheld swipe and pay portable card machines that would enable them to process the payment while they're there at your home.
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The report data posted above is ALL official COVID deaths. COVID was listed on the death certificates, meaning it was either the main cause or a contributing cause, as the several prior posts above clearly explain.
Any other answer is simply denying the clearly detailed facts as explained above from posts by the reporting government agency (UKHSA) and the BBC.
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Just now, BeastOfBodmin said:
So "died with X" is medical-speak for "was killed by X" pr, more plainly, "died of X"?
As I explained above:
They ALL are COVID deaths as determined by the attending doctors, who listed COVID as a cause on the death certificate... Either COVID as the main cause, or as COVID as a contributing cause along with other factors. Both get counted in the COVID on the death certificate counts.
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"We explained previously how COVID-19 deaths are recorded in the United Kingdom. There are two main reports:
- Deaths within 28 days of a reported COVID-19 infection (deaths with COVID)
- Death where COVID-19 is mentioned on the death registration (deaths from COVID)"
[The UKHSA chart info cited above, as it indicates, is from the second line data in this post, deaths where COVID is mentioned on the death registration -- deaths FROM COVID.]
https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2023/01/27/changes-to-the-way-we-report-on-covid-19-deaths/
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How death certificates really work
"The idea, popular in some online groups, that a large proportion of virus deaths are people who died "with" but not necessarily "of" Covid - coincidentally testing positive when dying of another cause - is based on a misinterpretation of how deaths are recorded.
When doctors fill in death certificates, they record the chain of events that led directly to a patient's death based on physical examinations, tests, symptoms and medical records.
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If someone was in hospital dying of another cause and happened to test positive for Covid, it would not be recorded in the same way. [emphasis added]
There is another section of the death certificate form where doctors can add pre-existing conditions which may have contributed, like asthma.
BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/60145237
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5 minutes ago, BeastOfBodmin said:
They're not necessarily COVID deaths. They are deaths with COVID mentioned on the death certificate.
They ALL are COVID deaths as determined by the attending doctors, who listed COVID as a cause on the death certificate... Either COVID as the main cause, or as COVID as a contributing cause along with other factors.
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A timeless reminder of the timely nonsense that regularly occurs here:
Pseudoscience and COVID-19 — we’ve had enough already
The scientific community must take up cudgels in the battle against bunk
"Cow urine, bleach and cocaine have all been recommended as COVID-19 cures — all guff. The pandemic has been cast as a leaked bioweapon, a byproduct of 5G wireless technology and a political hoax — all poppycock. And countless wellness gurus and alternative-medicine practitioners have pushed unproven potions, pills and practices as ways to ‘boost’ the immune system.
Thankfully, this explosion of misinformation — or, as the World Health Organization has called it, the “infodemic” — has triggered an army of fact-checkers and debunkers. Regulators have taken aggressive steps to hold marketers of unproven therapies to account. Funders are supporting researchers (myself included) to explore how best to counter the spread of COVID-19 claptrap.
I have studied the spread and impact of health misinformation for decades, and have never seen the topic being taken as seriously as it is right now. Perhaps that is because of the scale of the crisis and the ubiquity of the nonsensical misinformation, including advice from some very prominent politicians. If this pro-science response is to endure, all scientists — not just a few of us — must stand up for quality information.
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We need physicists, microbiologists, immunologists, gastroenterologists and all scientists from relevant disciplines to provide simple and shareable content explaining why this hijacking of real research is inaccurate and scientifically dishonest." [emphasis added]
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Timothy Caulfield is a Canada research chair in health law and policy at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01266-z
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3 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:
Just look at the facts dispassionately.
You have NO facts. Just disreputable websites known for posting fake news and other COVID misinformation.
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1 hour ago, hotandsticky said:
No self-respecting Brit would refer to Autumn as "fall".
Perhaps that's because the person who posted the OP news here isn't a Brit!
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33 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:
Died Suddenly:
"Died Suddenly" refers to a baseless conspiracy theory alleging that COVID-19 vaccines are causing healthy people to die unexpectedly . It is not a factual medical term. The claims spread primarily through a 2022 film and the hashtag #DiedSuddenly on social media, but they have been widely debunked by medical experts and fact-checkers.
--AI assisted
"Overall, we rate DiedSuddenly.info as an extreme right-biased Tin-Foil Hat Conspiracy website that also publishes Quackery-level Pseudoscience. Further, they lack transparency, rely on poor sources, and have failed numerous fact checks."
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/diedsuddenly-info/
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5 hours ago, howlee101 said:
oh yeah, if it comes from wikipedia, it must be 100% accurate
Pretty much EVERYONE recognizes the Vigilant Fox website as a fake news, misinformation peddler... That, of course, is WHY its content is being posted here.
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- Overall, we rate Vigilant News as far-right biased and questionable based on the promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, false claims, poor sourcing, and a lack of transparency.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/vigilant-news-bias/
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1 hour ago, KhunLA said:USA ... ventilate ASAP
to maximize profits, and no matter, (NY ) classify it as COVID, get 3X the pay out, than incubating for any other reason. $$$$
No one's arguing that the federal government didn't provide extra funding to hospitals to pay for the crush of COVID patients overwhelming their wards and requiring heavy treatment. But that's a whole different matter from the false notion that hospitals somehow faked COVID cases that weren't really COVID cases, which NO fact checking source has confirmed.
Hospital Payments and the COVID-19 Death Count
Posted on April 21, 2020
"Q: Are hospitals inflating the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths so they can be paid more?
A: Recent legislation pays hospitals higher Medicare rates for COVID-19 patients and treatment, but there is no evidence of fraudulent reporting."
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Numerous readers have asked us about such claims, some of which imply that hospitals are making money by simply listing patients as having the disease — when in fact the payments referenced are for treating patients. And while some of the posts imply that fraud may be afoot, multiple experts told us that such theories of hospitals deliberately miscoding patients as COVID-19 are not supported by any evidence. [emphasis added]
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“There’s an implication here that hospitals are over-reporting their COVID patients because they have an economic advantage of doing so, [which] is really an outrageous claim,” Gerald Kominski, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, told us. And, he said, any suggestion that patients may be put on ventilators out of financial gain, not medical need, “is basically saying physicians are violating their Hippocratic Oath … it would be like providing heart surgery on someone who doesn’t need it.”
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-covid-19-death-count/
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Now the nurse that's the subject of the OP:
What we have is an angry, aggrieved anti-vaxer nurse who was fired from her job..... Surprised she's trying to take an ax to the hospital industry???
"Whistleblower status: Macrae became known as a whistleblower after she was fired by Kaiser for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Criticism of isolation: She also became an advocate against patient isolation policies, stating that she was "forced to participate in" harming patients by telling family members they could not visit their loved ones. She said the experience drove her to leave the field"
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"Isolation is a gold standard practice in healthcare settings to reduce and prevent the spread of infections particularly those which have the potential to cause serious harm to individuals or the community, or to protect immunocompromised patients from infection."
Keep in mind, the experience she's talking about in hospitals was during the pre-COVID vaccine era, early in the pandemic when there was NO protection / immunity from COVID in the community and liitle to no known effective treatment for hospitalized patients with very severe COVID... Trying to stop the spread of COVID infections, both within hospitals and between patients and outside visitors, was considered paramount at the time.
And here's why - COVID deaths in the U.S. by the end of 2020 running at more than 23.000 per week and climbing!
https://www.cdc.gov/covid/php/surveillance/index.html
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6 minutes ago, save the frogs said:
A few weeks back, there was an article on AN where Trump addressed this issue and promised to space out the vaccine schedule for children. So let's see if Trump keeps his promise.
So you're taking your medical advice now re childhood vaccines from Donald Trump and disgraced doctor Peter McCullough???
"When President-elect Donald J. Trump mused in a recent television interview about whether vaccines cause autism — a theory that has been discredited by dozens of scientific studies — autism researchers across the country collectively sighed in frustration." [emphasis added]
New York Times
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A news report on England's fall COVID surge from the beginning of October:
NHS issues urgent warning as new Covid variant fuels 60% rise in hospital admissions [since August]
Eligible Brits are being urged for come forward for jabs to keep them out of hospital this winter
Oct 1, 2025
"A new Covid variant known as XFG is thought to have fuelled a 60% rise in hospitalisations for patients with the virus, according to the NHS. Health chiefs stressed there was no evidence that the strain leads to more serious disease.
However, experts have said mutations in the virus's spike protein may have given it a slight advantage when evading immunity generated by previous infection or vaccination. ...
The NHS is urging everyone eligible for a free Covid or flu vaccine to come forward as the programme expands to all groups from Wednesday.... Free Covid vaccinations are available for all adults aged 75 and over, older adult care home residents, and people who are immunosuppressed.
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Health Minister Karin Smyth said: "Vaccines save lives and with flu and Covid-19 cases already rising, I urge all those eligible to come forward and prevent sickness before it happens."
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Express UK
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2115272/covid-nhs-vaccine-jab-flu-winter
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WHO statement on autism-related issues
24 September 2025
" a robust, extensive evidence base exists showing childhood vaccines do not cause autism. Large, high-quality studies from many countries have all reached the same conclusion. Original studies suggesting a link were flawed and have been discredited. Since 1999, independent experts advising WHO have repeatedly confirmed that vaccines—including those with thiomersal or aluminum—do not cause autism or other developmental disorders. [emphasis added]
World Health Organization
https://www.who.int/news/item/24-09-2025-who-statement-on-autism-related-issues
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Fact Checked: Vaccines: Safe and Effective, No Link to Autism
"Some individuals wrongly assert there is a link between vaccines and autism. Before the claim was discredited, researchers took it seriously, investigated it thoroughly, and found no link. This research, in many countries, involving thousands of individuals, has spanned multiple decades. Any effort to misrepresent sound, strong science poses a threat to the health of children and does a disservice to our autistic community. [emphasis added]
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Studies have repeatedly found no credible link between life-saving childhood vaccines and autism. The original report claiming that the MMR vaccine causes autism was retracted due to fraudulent data, and the report’s author was sanctioned by scientific bodies and lost his license to practice medicine.
Scientists are learning more about potential causes of autism all the time. One thing we know with certainty is that vaccines are not one of the causes. There is no single, root cause of autism. A combination of influences is likely involved." [emphasis added]
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American Academy of Pediatrics
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England hit by fall COVID wave, deaths & hospitalizations up
in Covid & Other Vaccine Studies
Covid vaccines saved more than 400,000 lives in England and Scotland, WHO says
The study is the most comprehensive to date in showing how effective Covid vaccines have been, scientists say
January 19, 2024
"Covid vaccines have saved more than 420,000 lives in England and Scotland, according to an analysis by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The study estimates that jabs saved 396,532 lives in England and 24,340 lives in Scotland between December 2020 and March 2023.
As such, they reduced the death toll from Covid by 70 per cent during this period, the analysis found. [emphasis added]
The research was led by the WHO but involved dozens of scientists from 32 research organisations around Europe, including the UK Health Security Agency and Public Health Scotland.
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https://inews.co.uk/news/science/covid-vaccines-saved-lives-england-scotland-who-2862550