{"podcast":{"title":"Dr. John Campbell","slug":"dr-john-campbell-7851784","podcast_index_feed_id":7851784,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/VG9554039150","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/7a133470-32e4-11f1-ae26-ef5a830a5f06/image/aacd596ff9b51467520b0238cfcd1c87.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Campbellteaching","episode_count":658,"summary":"Hello Everyone, My name is John Campbell and I am a retired Nurse Teacher and former clinical nurse based in England. I also do some teaching in Asia and Africa when time permits. These videos are to help students to learn the background to all forms of health care. My PhD focused on the development of open learning resources for nurses nationally and internationally. LinkedIn profile, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-john-campbell-5256223b/ Twitter, https://twitter.com/Johnincarlisle Disclaimer; These media including videos, book, e book, articles, podcasts are not peer-reviewed. They should never replace individual clinical judgement from your own health care provider. No media-based material on this channel is suitable for using as professional medical advice. All comments are also for educational purposed only and must never replace advice from your own health care provider","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T06:22:02.195523+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784"},"episode":{"title":"Most omicron hospitalisations unintended","slug":"most-omicron-hospitalisations-unintended","published_at":"2026-09-05T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784/most-omicron-hospitalisations-unintended","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG7464676564.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG7464676564.mp3","summary":"Around 80% of English hospital admissions with coronavirus are admitted for other reasons UK, 24th December Omicron hospital patients, 366 Total omicron deaths, 29 UK, 27th December Omicron hospital patients, 407 Total omicron deaths, 39 Omicron cases + 45,307 = 159,932 UK, 29th December Omicron hospital patients, + 261 + 98 = 766 Total omicron deaths, + 10 + 4 = 53 UK data https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-omicron-daily-overview https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels-over-time https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk SA data SA hospital data https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/disease-index-covid-19/surveillance-reports/daily-hospital-surveillance-datcov-report/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-africa/ US cases and deaths data https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases Isolation down to 5 days is asymptomatic 20% of covid admissions caused by viral complications https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/28/covid-hospital-data-should-treated-caution-many-patients-admitted/ December 21, England Covid patients in hospital = 6,245 Up 259 from previous week Of the 259, just 45 admitted because of the virus Of the 259, admitted, 214 for other conditions but having also tested positive “incidental Covid” admissions Previous week, December 7 to December 14 Majority of hospitalisations were still delta Primary covid cases were 59% of the 289 weekly rise People currently in hospital with Covid “incidental” cases, 1,813 out of 6,245 Highest so far Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine, Oxford University This is not the same disease we were seeing a year ago The horrific scenes that we saw a year ago – intensive care units being full, lots of people dying prematurely – that is now history in my view and I think…that’s lik…","meta_description":"Around 80% of English hospital admissions with coronavirus are admitted for other reasons UK, 24th December Omicron hospital patients, 366 Total omicron d…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1596,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dr-john-campbell-7851784/episodes/most-omicron-hospitalisations-unintended/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784/most-omicron-hospitalisations-unintended.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}