Quality and performance

Why ‘empty hospitals’ headlines mislead

By 2020-10-09T12:18:00

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David Oliver explains how statistics have been picked to portray the pandemic as a ‘scamdemic’ and policy responses as over-reactions in a misrepresentation of hospital admissions and bed occupancy rates

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