Link between Covid cases and deaths has been broken, says senior NHS boss
NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson says hospitals are reporting much lower mortality rates
The UK's vaccination programme has broken the link between infections, hospital admissions and deaths, and hospitals were reporting fewer and younger patients, according to a senior boss in the NHS.
The NHS Providers chief executive, Chris Hopson, told Times Radio: What [hospital] chief executives are consistently telling us is that it is a much younger population that is coming in, they are less clinically vulnerable, they are less in need of critical care and therefore they're seeing what they believe is significantly lower mortality rate which is, you know, borne out by the figures. So it's not just the numbers of people who are coming in, it's actually the level of harm and clinical risk.
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