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Originally Posted by Paul
and lets not forget, the UK 'death rate' is nonsense anyway.
As the reports keep telling you
They did not necessarily die from the virus, they simply died with 28 days of a positive test. They could have been runover, died from natural causes, had a heart attack, accident, or any other number of things. In fact, they could have had no CV symptoms at all.
Why on earth cant we simply count those actually killed by the virus.
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Well the number of hospital admissions and those on ventilators isn't exactly small, and is increasing.
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Sir Mark Walport, a member of Sage told the BBC: "On the 19 March, just before the first set of widespread restrictions, hospital admissions were 586 in England and on the 6 October they were 524.
"So we are very close to the situation at the beginning of March."
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But this masks a stark regional picture - with cases doubling around twice as fast in the North West, Yorkshire and the West Midlands compared to the whole of England.
It also shows there has been an eight-fold increase in cases in people over 65 as the epidemic surge that started in younger age groups bleeds into the rest of the population.
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Over 65s are at greater risk of more severe symtoms and death.