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Originally Posted by jfman
The fact you are using the 20,000 figure at all to reach your conclusion when the ONS have already calculated the rate based on the population figure for each age group is where you are going wrong.
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Ok help me out then.
U.K. population 67million.
ONS stats say 130 in every 100,000 aged 85 are in hospital (according to your interpretation)
There’s 670 x 100,000’s in 67 million.
That would mean, according to your interpretation, that there are 130 x 670 over 85’s in hospital with COVID = 87,100 and that’s just that one group.
I therefore suggest you are interpreting the information incorrectly.