Kate Hawkesby: The Wellington echo chamber seems to think staying in red isn't a big deal

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Apr 5, 2022 · 3m

I thought Ashley Bloomfield said something quite revealing on Mike’s show yesterday about where the hospital system is at.

We know there are more than 700 people in hospital with Covid related illnesses but that’s not in hospital because of Covid – that’s in hospital with Covid related illnesses. Unfortunately, Bloomfield said they don’t know specifically the breakdown on how many of those are in which category, but he said roughly about 30 to 40 percent of people across the Auckland-Waikato region are in hospital not because of Covid, but with it. In other words, it’s incidental to their…