By Ben Kerrigan-
Allegations that the NHS has been inflating the number of Covid patients through routine testing has raised concerns that the number of rising infections reported cannot be trusted.
Tory Mps and former politicians have come out to confirm suspicions of The Eye Of Media.Com that a lot of the rising infections being highlighted in media reports do not tell the whole story, but present a narrative designed to spark panic.
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Regular reports in this publication about rising infections has always made clear that without background illnesses put in the equation, media reports about increasing infections are unreliable.
We revealed when when the first death connected to omicron was announced that the news was unreliable in the absence of a full background of the patient
Now, The MailOnline – one of the few media publications during the pandemic to occasionally report flaws in the gathering of infection related data- has featured complaints from former Tory Mp, Ian Duncan Smith over potentially dodgy stats relating to rising infections.
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According to the Mail, Ian Duncan Smith said the issue of whether people are being hospitalised ‘with’ or ‘for’ Covid was ‘really important’ for working out how much pressure the NHS faces.
Mr Duncan Smith added: ‘The government has dragged its feet over showing those figures, I suspect because they know what will happen — it will reduce the numbers that they have going into hospital with Covid — in other words who are ill and have to go to hospital because of Covid.’
Tory MP Craig Mackinlay also suggested statistics making up hospitalizations might really be people going in with a broken leg, and later getting tested and told they have the virus.
Sceptical of Covid infection stats: Mp Craig Mackinlay Image: news.sky.com
The Mail Online also said that SAGE appeared to admit that even patients on mental health wards who test positive in hospital are added to the daily admissions tally.
The latest challenge to the credibility of hospital stats raises serious questions regarding the trustworthiness of Nhs staff and the competence of ministers and Sage members who have been pushing for a lockdown based on infection rates.
Where staff may be tampering with the number of recorded infections, the reason and purpose of their inflated statistics becomes a question that requires an answer.
Other important issues are why ministers and sage members who are quick to jump at unconfirmed reports of rising infections and hospitalizations, do not examine the facts before being quick to call for increased restrictions.
The high transmissibility of the omicron variant is not in dispute, since there are many accounts of its wide spread in many parts of the world, but its its exaggeration through skewing its effects on hospitalization, changes its our understanding of the level of harm it poses on society.
Writer, researcher and life coach, Sheila Mckenzie, said: ”it is quite shocking to hear that even people in mental health wards have been added to the hospitalization stats of the omicron variants, though not so surprising. We always knew that deeper investigation was necessary before using incomplete information to conclude on serious matters unlike these ministers and so-called scientists
”Wider research is now required in all four nations of the Uk to make sure the public aren’t taking for bigger fools than we already imagined”.
Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have all applied stringent restrictions for the christmas period, with clubs completely shut down in Scotland and strict rules applied for pubs in both in all three nations.
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