Of course the real figure will be more like 1% because we haven't been testing everyone
Ok let’s argue over half a percent, I’ll bite. There are many global studies that show, and even Patrick Vallance said at the press conference it was likely to be a lot lower than one percent, but global studies, inc the heindenberg one, amongst many, are starting to show it’s likely to be 0.05 percent. Potentially even lower than that, and could be as low as 0.04.
And if you also do the maths, the last time I looked approx 88 percent of people who died were over 65. Which means 12 percent were below this age, as deaths in care homes have now soared it’s likely lower again still.
But the last stats I looked at a few days ago showed approx 3000 people under 65 had died in the uk.
Of those, when you drill down in the government data, 95 percent had under lying health issues, five percent were healthy.
As such approx 150 healthy people under sixty five have died.
There is no way round the stats, they are published not just by our government but many governments globally, the death rate is very low, it’s likely to be a max of 0.05 percent and a thousandth of that for healthy people under sixty five.
I really don’t understand why with all the data published people don’t bother to read it or act dismayed when they see it’s so low.
Yes the elderly and those with underlying health conditions count. And yes the death rate amongst those groups is much much higher, but across the population it is very low, as 95 percent of deaths are people who have underlying health issues and approx 90 percent of deaths are over 65.