UK Covid death toll

[billybassett]

Some interesting stuff in this presser from Vallance and Whitty.

If cases continue to rise as they are, we could have almost 50,000 cases on 13th October.

Cases going up in all age groups, not just the 'young'.

Four ways to stop the increase... reducing individual risk, ensuring people are self-isolating, break unnecessary links between households (whatever that is) and development of a vaccine.

50,000 people with the virus doesn't mean 50,000 cases. It means 50,000 people have the virus not that they are ill or need treatment.

Yer man Whitty said cases 

I dunno. Seems like a winter without pubs and restaurants is on the cards.

Sorry yes - my point was 50000 people with it doesn't mean 50000 need treatment. As he says today 70000 are reckoned to have the virus, with 6000 catching it daily (obviously testing means we're only certain about a portion) but there's only 205 in hospital.

"We've got to protect the NHS at all costs is the mantra". I think come the end of it and if there's another lockdown we will all be living in a room inside an NHS hospital because it will be the only thing left standing