Claim: The number of Covid hospitalisations is 0.5% of the level of cases.
Fact-check: Allison Pearson tweets misleading stats about Covid hospital patients - Full Fact
Verdict: the statistics used to make this claim compare positive test results when tests were first taken versus current hospitalisation figures. because of the time it may take for symptoms to develop before hospitalisation, this is a flawed calculation.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Tom Norton
Date published: 2021-07-16T00:00:00