It is nitpicking. The UKHSA referred to hospital treatment and ICUS are a part of that.
It is blindingly obvious that the politicians and spokespersons are being wilfully misleading, especially in the oft quoted 90% being unvaccinated without a verifiable single statistic in support. It is incompatible with the UKHSA data.
The motive is equally blindingly obvious, need I really spell it out again? They need to portray the vaccines as being far more effective that they really are for them and their vaccines policy to be accepted as the saviours of the nation.
Of course the large numbers of unvaccinated not suffering Covid problems are a huge inconvenience that needs to be minimised by bullying them into vaccination.
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The situation is a lot more nuanced than your analysis might suggest. All figures quoted refer to England
Taking your obvious ratio of 36% unvaxxed and 64% vaxxed for Covid as hospital admissions in the current period , that doesn't imply that they are being admitted for Covid related illnesses,.. They can be admitted via A&E for any reason including strokes, broken legs , child birth , but it does mean that they were positive for Covid ,and Covid Nursing precautions had to be adopted. That number is broadly consistent with the vaccinated ratio...but with the unvaxxed ratio slightly over represented .
But it is what happens after that where the discrepancy can arise ....
Data refers to early December...
The total number of hospital beds is about 125K. The number of those occupied by Covid positive patients is 6K , or 4%.
The total number of Mechanical Ventilation Beds .ie ICU or extreme Care units 3715 . The number of those occupied by Covid Positive patients is 774 or 20% of all those critical care beds.
"Anecdotal data from Professor Andrew Pollard, Chair of the Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation, also suggests that a majority of Covid patients currently in intensive care are not vaccinated.
In an article in the Guardian on 23 November, he wrote. "This ongoing horror [of severe Covid], which is taking place in ICUs across Britain, is now largely restricted to unvaccinated people."
Full Fact asked Professor Pollard if there was a source for this claim. He replied by agreeing that the data was not yet available from ICNARC, but said that the majority of ICU admissions were unvaccinated.
He added: “Fortunately, it is easy to verify by discussing with hospitals in the UK, which we did before writing the article to check our own observations that ICUs are full of the unvaccinated. We called around infectious disease specialists who work with the ICUs, but ICU teams have also been writing about this issue.”
He said that data from intensive care units was a better way to assess the effect of the Covid vaccines “as they have a much clearer definition of severe covid that isn’t so confounded by the way general hospital admission data are collected.”
Did they mean ECMO?
A possible source for the claim made by Ms Kelly and her guests is an article that appeared in the Sunday Times on 5 December (and online the day before). It reported that “more than 90 per cent of Covid sufferers requiring the most specialist care are unvaccinated”.
Later, the article explained this in more detail, saying: “Between July and November, NHS England said that 150 [Covid] patients were referred for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or Ecmo, where blood is cycled through an artificial lung machine before returning it to the body. Of these patients, only 6 per cent had been fully vaccinated.”
Full Fact has contacted the NHS and the Times to verify these figures, but the number of patients receiving ECMO treatment make up only a small minority of the thousands in hospital or in intensive care with Covid."
