>>Mostly the young and at the moment hospitalisations haven't gone up but there is always some lag.
That is rather the point, surely? People catching COVID is inevitable, unimportant and uninteresting.
People being hospitalised at a greater rather than the health systems can cope with is a different matter.
If there is not the same strength of link between case and hospital, then opening p is the correct thing to do.
Latest positive test figure in the UK is 32,367. Latest hospitalisation is 563, What's that, like 1.7%?. At it's height daily hospitalisations were at 4,309.
Patients in hospital is 2,731 against a height in January of 39,254. Patients on ventilation is 417 down from a height of 4,077.
In the UK the significant increases are in the younger age groups, which are people who tend not to die so much.
It is a fact that COVID has not and will never go away. For as long as the health system can cope then it is of no particular importance. We need to learn how to live with it and not try to run away and hide in fear.
The world needs to learn how to grow some and cope.
AN interesting quote from the ONS.
"Almost all (96%) adults reported that they have now received or would be likely to accept a COVID-19 vaccine if offered. Of those aged 16 to 29 years, 90% reported positive vaccine sentiment, compared with 63% at the start of the vaccination programme in December 2020."
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19roundup/2020-03-26
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