//…but it is not only the elderly who are succumbing to Covid 19.//
It is overwhelmingly so, danny. Over 90% of victims were over 65.
//This is also misleading because it ignores the fact that there has been a trend upwards for the last month.//
It is also misleading because it [478 new hospital admissions] does not put the matter into context. There are normally around six million hospital admissions annually in England alone. That’s about 120,000 a week. In the week to 4th October (the latest figures available) there were 2,549 Covid admissions. That’s about one in every fifty of the normal number. Bearing in mind that so-called “elective” surgery has been all but abandoned and that many other treatments which normally require a hospital admission have similarly been suspended, it really makes no sense to fret over such a small number of admissions.