Apologies if someone has already mentioned this but Professor Spiegelhalter was interviewed on Andrew Marr today and said this:
People are anxious about children, and there's 10 million under 15s in England and Wales, how many of those have died? Had Covid on their deaths out of these 30,000 have died? Two out of 10 million.”
Acknowledging such cases were “very tragic” he said, “this is the tiniest risk you could ever think of”.
Although children and young people may pass on Covid-19, their personal risk was “staggeringly low” he continued.
“If we look at under 25s, there're 17 million of them in the country where we have 26 deaths recorded,” he said, suggesting a similar risk would be seen in “a couple of days” in general accidents and sudden deaths.
Probably will be told he has no clue what he’s talking about by the expert dementors even though he’s a hugely respected statistician at Cambridge and just stating facts.