Tom Harwood: ‘The media too often alights upon the most extreme Covid scenario’

now on the 15th of september 2021 the headline of the guardian newspaper read act urgently or face up to 7 000 days uh 7 000 a day in hospital scientists tell pm we were warned that the uk is now at a pivot point and that the burden on health and care settings could rise very quickly just for context seven thousand hospitalizations a day would be three thousand higher yes 3 000 higher than the deadliest peak of the pandemic last winter this was a serious headline well what's happened since last month's dew mongering the latest data from the official government dashboard shows that hospitalizations have almost halved from over 1 000 a day down to the mid 600s we can have a look at what that looks like now far from that large large peak at the winter hospitalizations are actually now trending downwards well on the 15th of september the same day as that guardian headline we had dr andrew lillico on this programme he forensically took apart the weird and wild model of 7 000 hospitalizations a day here's some of what he had to say he said that the way in which newspapers are reporting a lot of this modeling indeed a way in which many television channels are reporting a lot of this modeling is taking the most extreme models and blowing them up as if there's some kind of central scenario when they're not at all that i really do encourage you to look at the interview with dr liliko on the gb news website well dr liliko went on to say that the media often alights on the most extreme scenario has happened in this case and he was absolutely right we can see it in the data hospitalizations rose very slightly a couple of weeks ago and have been fooling any since every any fool could look at this graph and see the idea that we could reach 7 000 hospitalizations this month is an absurdity it's well worth looking at that interview coveted cases meanwhile which are a leading indicator of hospitalizations have bumped up and down with no sign of exponential growth very even a lot lower now uh than they were before our so-called freedom day enacting step four of the roadmap when the government did in july was absolutely right it was timed to perfection we're clearly in as good a place as we could hope to be nightclubs are open children are back at school and we're clearly immune enough to keep even the delta variant bumping around rather than soaring into the hundreds of thousands of cases every day and even though sakia stamina won't say it out loud you can see what they really think from the labour party conference barely a mask to be seen labour delegates enjoying poor poorly ventilated drinks receptions shoulder to shoulder with other maskless guests a crowded leader's speech with just a small smattering of face coverings don't believe their theatre in parliament conference showed what they really think and they're right now i'm not counting my chickens here it's prudent to keep a low intervention toolbox just in case but as things stand we're in a fairly good place

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Length: 3min 37sec (217 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 01 2021