08-12-2020, 05:43 PM
(08-11-2020, 01:10 PM)baggy1 Wrote: The problem with all the figures is that infection rate is a made up figure purely because they haven't tested everyone (I don't expect them to) and therefore don't know how many people have got it (asymptomatic). The only data that actually means anything is excess deaths and that will wash out as time goes on - we've had 60 odd thousand excess deaths this year, we have a population of 60 odd million therefore death rate as a proportion of population is 0.1%. That will be the only comparable figure with other countries.
(08-11-2020, 12:28 PM)The liquidator Wrote: Get knocked over and its covid totally inflated death rates in hospitals and care homes I reckon .
Of course you do
America's current excess death percentage is roughly 0.05%, so way below ours... (even using the upper estimate for them only pushes it to 0.07%). In the UK, the week ending July 31, there were less deaths recorded than the average, by about 1%, it was also lower than the 5 year average by 42 deaths, so that would suggest there is nothing to worry about, yet 193 deaths for the week mentioned CovID...and accounted for 2.2% of all deaths in England and Wales. (death registry: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationa...31july2020)
So if we use excess deaths then that suggests that there is nothing to worry about. Which is obviously wrong, whatever stat they use is damn tricky to give accurate info. And I just saw that 5,000 deaths are coming off the list as we've moved to counting the same way Scotland and Wales do (only CovID if death is within 28 days of confirmed test).
Either way we seem to have more deaths per case than anyone else, which is a worry.