© UK GovernmentUK individuals with at least one positive test result.
Cases are soaring, with a record 60,916 new cases reported yesterday. Hospital admissions for Covid are going up and up. Deaths are in the hundreds per day and increasing. Only an idiot would doubt we're in the midst of a serious pandemic, right?
Except all these figures that show there's a deadly pandemic raging are
based on mass testing using PCR and more recently lateral flow tests. Cases are just positive tests. Hospital admissions are just people in hospital who test positive (and all patients are tested). Deaths are just people who die of any cause within 28 days of a positive test.
To get a true picture of what's going on
you have to look at data that are independent of PCR tests. So overall hospital and ICU occupancy, excess deaths, emergency calls for flu-like symptoms and so on.
Strikingly, these data all speak in unison and tell a very different story.Look at the graph below of A&E attendances in England for acute respiratory infections
(which include COVID-19). It's trending
well below baseline and, save for a September spike leading into elevated winter levels, been almost flat since the spring.
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