07-04-2021, 18:59
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by Pierre
I know it isn’t but it will be monitored and managed annually like the flu
No evidence of that, the vaccine producers have already gone on record that they can adapt and develop the vaccines to address other strains as and when they might appear.
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If you are vaccinating those that need to be vaccinated, why the need for “herd immunity”. Zero COVID is like chasing the end of the rainbow.
Vaccinate the vulnerable, manage the risks, live our lives.
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Not sure I think "monitoring and managing" something with six times the death rate of flu an appropriate method of health management...
COVID is much more infectious and deadlier than the flu,so it can’t be "managed and monitored" like it.
https://www.health.org.uk/publicatio...a-proved-wrong
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Key points
Myth 1: ‘Those who die from COVID-19 would have died soon anyway’
In the first year of COVID-19 (5 March 2020 to 5 March 2021), 1.5 million potential years of life were lost in the UK as a result of people dying with the virus. In England and Wales alone this figure is 1.4 million.
On average, each of the 146,000 people who died with COVID-19 lost 10.2 years of life.
Myth 2: ‘It’s just a bad flu season’
In a bad flu year on average around 30,000 people in the UK die from flu and pneumonia, with a loss of around 250,000 life years. This is a sixth of the life years lost to COVID-19.
We have more detailed data for England and Wales. This shows us that, even looking only at those aged older than 75 (who account for most COVID-19 and flu deaths) – COVID-19 has been much more deadly. In 2018, a bad flu year, around 25,000 people older than 75 died from flu or pneumonia. These people lost a total of 140,000 years of life – 5.75 years each on average. This is about a quarter of the life years lost among those older than 75 from COVID-19.
More years of men's lives have been lost in the pandemic than women’s. Again, looking at England and Wales, women older than 75 lost around four-times more years of life than for a bad flu season; for men it was five times higher.
Myth 3: ‘COVID-19 is the great leveller – we are all equally at risk’
COVID-19 was not the great leveller. People in the 20% most deprived parts of England were twice as likely to die from COVID-19 as those in the least deprived areas. They also died at younger ages, so may have lost more years of life. While existing health inequalities mean these people may have had lower life expectancy, the analysis found that in total, 35% more lives were lost in the 20% most deprived areas than the least, with 45% more years of life lost in total.
On average, each person who died in the most deprived quintile lost 11 years of their life, compared with 10 years in the least deprived.
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Last edited by Hugh; 07-04-2021 at 19:02.
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