UK Covid death toll

[backsidebaggie]

As we learn more about Covid there are more myths debunked. There is a claim that I see a lot about a survival rate of 99.97%, if you use social media there is a good chance you have seen this. The Imperial College London have now issued a report that shows for those that get the infection and a country such as the UK there is a 1.15% death rate. This might seem small but as we have 67M people in the UK that equates to about 770k people if we went for herd immunity. In an average year we have about 550k people die (this is for E&W) so you can see how big this number is relatively. 


https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/207273/c...tio-about/

To be fair, the 99.97 ish figures are typically given by people for the middle age and under, not overall death rate for the whole population.