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Last 14 days COVID-19 hospital patients in England
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nhs-england-covid-19-patients-last14days.sh
curl --compressed 'https://api.coronavirus.data.gov.uk/v1/data?filters=areaType=nation;areaName=England&structure=%7B%22date%22:%22date%22,%22hospitalCases%22:%22hospitalCases%22%7D&format=xml' | ggrep -Pio "<hospitalCases>\K([^<]+)" | perl -e "print reverse(<>)" | tail -n 14 | paste -sd "," -
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Note that this requires GNU grep to get the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions to work on OSX. You can install through brew:

brew install grep

It can then be used via ggrep

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