Claim: Last week Sir Patrick Vallance and Prof Chris Whitty presented a graph which cherry-picked several hospitals on course to run out of beds, despite falling or flat rates of Covid-19 bed occupancy across the country.
Fact-check: Telegraph wrong on Whitty and Vallance statements - Full Fact
Verdict: sir patrick and professor whitty did not present any data on individual hospital bed occupancy figures last week. this may refer to data they presented at the end of october. on 26 november sir patrick said the number of covid-19 patients in hospital was flattening.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2020-12-03T00:00:00