WARRINGTON Hospital has announced COVID-19 inpatient numbers are steadily falling, while the intensive care unit is holding steady at less than half of available capacity, following reports cases were worse than two weeks ago.
Professor Simon Constable, Chief Executive said: “We are pleased to see that the overall number of inpatients with COVID-19 is steadily falling and the number of patients discharged rising at a correspondingly strong rate with 235 patients discharged to date.
“Sadly, 100 patients have died.
“We continue to hold steady in our ICU with COVID-19 positive patients on the unit now less than half of our available capacity. This is our verified position at noon today. (see graph below)
“Our advice to the general public is to continue to follow all Government guidance relating to Covid-19 which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
The statement follows a tweet earlier today by Dr Mark Roberts which stated the hospital’s ICU unit had more COVID-19 cases than two weeks ago, suggesting that more people going out and ignoring lockdown had the department “seriously worried.”
*no data available on 28 April due to Data Warehouse downtime
Our #ICU already has more #COVID19 cases than 2 weeks ago as more people go out. Ignoring #lockdown has us seriously worried for the next few weeks. #pleasestayathome pic.twitter.com/xFUXCRPaql
— Mark Forrest (@Obidoc) May 10, 2020
2 Comments
Thanks for the first really interesting data for weeks that show Mark Forrest is correct but it looks to be within statistical fluctuation. However the serious cases are still quite flat. If we need add the new tested positive cases from government figures for Warrington and Halton we can get a fuller picture and the variation in new cases are close to the bed occupancy changes. This is the first time I can see how the number line up and can take a guess at the way risk is changing in Warrington because this is the first time all the data sources have been available. It seems a shame that Prof Constable only did it to calm concern caused by Dr. Forrest’s remark. We should have had these numbers all the time. I still can’t see that they are published by the trust.
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