If you're calling for schools to go back, restrictions to be relaxed...

[GrumpiestOldWoman]

...were you also in the group shouting for a lockdown a month ago?

People seem to be as desperate to open things back up now as they were to lockdown a month ago, yet we're still not over the peak.

It's hard not to conclude that the novelty has worn off.

Why are the press giving more airtime to 'relax restrictions' messages rather than 'UK worst in Europe' which we clearly are when care home deaths are added to the hospital deaths numbers? When other countries were reporting the death numbers we have today the UK was screaming for lockdown, but now it doesn't seem to be newsworthy

I don't get it?

[lljkk]

what RafaIsTheKingOfClay wrote doesn't fit the published data

Does anyone read the ICNARC reports?
They suggest that 75% of those in critical care were age 52+.
BME people are over-represented.
The report only comments on "very severe comorbidities", not something as benign as T2 diabetes or well controlled hypertension.

[MinkowskisButterfly]

No, I was in the group desperate for lockdown and in no hurry to send my daughter back to school (I'm vulnerable but not shielding, DH is a keyworker).

[HarveySchlumpfenburger]

Typo on my behalf, lljkk it should have been under 60.

It’s the ICNARC reports that show this isn’t the same population as those you would typically expect to get viral pneumonia.

[ListeningQuietly]

Half of the critical care patients are under 50, 94% have no severe co-morbidities
Link please ....

[Student133]

@lljkk
As an additional to your comments, I would suggest that the reason BAME people are over represented in this may be due to the ethnic demographic of London, which is where many of the cases have occurred, as opposed to another reason. I'd imagine scientists are looking in to this to see if there is another reason.