The government imposed many restrictions on the population to control the spread of Covid and used fear, among other tactics, to encourage compliance. Yet one of the chief ways people caught Covid was in hospitals, which is beyond the responsibility of the population. A SAGE paper14 claimed that a staggering 40.5% of Covid infections in the first wave were caught in hospital. Between the beginning of the ‘second wave’ in September 2020 and 13 January 2021, over 25,000 people15 caught Covid while in hospital, but this may be an underestimate due to the limitations of the data available. The NHS
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