Nor am I. I see where you're coming from. My thinking, on the other hand, was that as at the moment we're only testing hospital admissions (outside of NHS staff), all we're seeing is testing on the worst cases. So what we're doing is associating positive tests with hospital admissions.

What I was getting at, is that tested or not, those who have mild or no symptoms still wouldn't need hospitalisation. We'd get better statistics on the penetration and the effectiveness of the lockdown but that doesn't equate to more hospital admissions.

Another factor potentially skewing the data is the fact it's mainly NHS staff getting tested, and many of them are picking it up from their patients. So whilst we're seeing increasing numbers of cases as the testing increases, it's not necessarily penetrating or spreading further. The only way to gauge that is to test the general population