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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Yes, that's over the whole year, and obviously includes the period when we were in a wave, with a largely unvaccinated population.
By July 2021, the latest figures shown, Covid was down to the ninth leading cause of death. If we can get something like 95% of the population vaccinated, the number of deaths will be much lower, but frankly, we can already see very clearly the direction in which this is going.
I do think it is important that we roll out the boosters to the over-50s, though, and this should seal our success in tackling this virus in the UK.
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Oh, without a doubt, things are going in the right direction. The big question is at what point do we say 'that's enough, we're all good now'? 969 people died of COVID is July, is this acceptable but can we go further, get better here? Is 500 acceptable, 250 OK?
Those 969 deaths are 969 tragedies for the families involved. I would doubt that they would take much solace in the fact more people died of cancer