UK Covid death toll

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 Will be interesting to see what happens when most of us have had two doses of the vaccine.

Indeed, early indications are that the link between cases, hospitalisations and deaths has already been broken: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56663969

There was a direct link between cases increasing, a couple of weeks later, hospitalisations rising, and then a further couple of weeks later excess deaths increasing. That appears to have been broken to a degree now and it will be interesting to see how things go as we ease out of lockdown further. Schools going back in September marked a noticeable increase in cases and hospitalisations which doesn't appear to have occurred so far this time. The obvious reason for this is the vaccination programme being the big difference, fingers crossed that it continues with each step.