hospital admissions are fluttering and falling in some areas. what these figures show is that on the 18th of january, out of patients in hospital in england, half were being primarily treated for covid, and others being treated with covid, so primarily with something else. the incidentalfigure has been steadily rising, it was about quarter of 8% in the autumn, it has been rising nearly half. it's important to point out they might be going on for other reasons, notjust a broken leg, they could be being treated for a stroke or cancer, and covid might be complicating that. it also means you have to put in extra infection control measures, so people with covid still have to be isolated on other wards, and that causes pressure and difficulties within the nhs. also, with staff absence, those rates have been falling. so now