More than half of all patients in English hospitals with COVID-19 are being treated primarily for something else, new figures show. The latest statistics show a growing proportion of patients who are in hospital “with” COVID-19 rather than “for” COVID-19. Of the 13,023 hospitalised patients in England reported as having the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus on Jan. 25, 52 percent (6,767) were not being treated principally for COVID-19. This is the highest proportion since these figures were first published in June 2021, and is up from 26 percent at the start of December 2021. A total of 501 patients in all hospitals in England were in mechanical ventilation beds on Jan. 25, compared with 773 at the start of December—and well below the 3,736 recorded at the peak of the second wave on Jan. 24, 2021. All hospital patients who have tested positive for COVID-19 need to be treated …