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Originally Posted by Paul
Deaths are reported everyday, so whats your point exactly ?
(If you even bothered to watch it, Whitty made a point of not saying they were rising atm).
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They aren't.
Cases are going up, but not massively so (we are actually in the same territory as when unlocking, with schools due to finish in a week or so).
But we don't know how much of this is Delta and how much is Omicron. The numbers of Omicron are likely to be some multiples higher than the actual figure, this is always true. And we don't know much about this variant yet.
There is also the situation that hospitalisations and subsequently deaths lag cases by weeks. If as some models predict that Omicron cases will hit 100k a day by January, even if this takes over Delta, and has a similar hospitalisation rate, you'd be looking at double the current numbers of hospitalisations. If it's able to defeat the vaccines to the extent it makes this higher, then there will be an issue.
This is simply buying time and makes a fair amount of sense.