Do people actually realise how few are dying from coronavirus now?

[Mrschickpeabody]

It’s all still doom and gloom on the news as normal regarding coronavirus. Loads about cases going up, local lockdowns, negativity regarding schools going back but nothing about the fact that hardly anyone is actually dying from coronavirus or being admitted to hospital. Can we not hear about positive things for once?

Covid is now the number one cause of death in the US so I think things have changed a bit since this post was created. Not sure where it lies In the top causes of death in the U.K. but I imagine it’s fairly high I think what’s happening in the US shows what can happen.

@Deez65

I would still like to see a full breakdown of deaths by ethnicity gender age underlying illness if they have the normal flu jab and finally the area/county in which they live There are some 600'ish per day, surely this is not too much to ask

I’m sure I’ve seen death by age in some of the graphs from the government or ONS. However a large proportion of U.K. population have underlying health conditions or get the flu jab. That doesn’t mean those deaths are therefore expendable and that they were about to die anyway.

Would be interested in the stats of those who die after 28 days.

If you get covid, get admitted to ICU and spend 29 days on a ventilator before dying then you have still died of covid. Most people do not catch it and die within a short period, there are still patient on ventilators from March/April although admittedly if they were to die now it would likely be of another complication.

I wonder if there are figures for this?

@Dannn

Would be interested in the stats of those who die after 28 days.

If you get covid, get admitted to ICU and spend 29 days on a ventilator before dying then you have still died of covid. Most people do not catch it and die within a short period, there are still patient on ventilators from March/April although admittedly if they were to die now it would likely be of another complication.

I wonder if there are figures for this?

I would like to know this as well. Is it recorded anywhere or would it only show up on charts showing excess deaths?