Is Scotland overcounting the number of patients in hospital beds?, CEBM (updated 2nd September 2020)

Daily the UK Government website updates the COVID data. In the 2 External 0 0 0healthcare section false https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/healthcare true false%>, the daily count of confirmed COVID-19 patients in hospital at midnight the preceding night is reported. In England, 430 patients were in hospital on the 28th of August. This is significantly down (by 81%) from the 2,289 reported on the 1st of July.
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