Confused52 Posted November 26, 2020 Report Share Posted November 26, 2020 10 minutes ago, asperity said: Firstly are the ONS Covid 19 deaths with or from Covid 19? Secondly, in a normal year i.e. one without Covid 19 do you know what the fatality rates are for 65-74 year olds and over 75 year olds? I'm guessing that the fatality rates would be more or less the same. It should be obvious that the 99% recovery rate covers all age groups and is lower for old people than for the young and fit. The average age of Covid 19 deaths is over 80. The figures I quoted on covid deaths from the actuaries we defined as "Registered deaths where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate" which corresponds to the ONS definition "“involving COVID-19” when referring to deaths that had COVID-19 mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, whether as an underlying cause or not". The other question on prior rates is harder but the ONS Nomisweb tells us Age 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 total (all ages) 528,507 523,857 532,130 540,265 529,553 Aged 65-69 37,827 38,429 36,420 35,693 34,164 Aged 70-74 47,244 48,836 51,691 54,010 53,535 Aged 75-79 64,668 64,018 64,206 65,085 64,596 Aged 80-84 87,003 84,403 85,552 86,582 85,928 Aged 85-89 97,809 96,044 97,943 99,534 96,190 Aged 90 and over 114,218 111,156 116,070 117,120 113,944 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confused52 Posted November 26, 2020 Report Share Posted November 26, 2020 (edited) I see some think what we call Lockdown, but in reality is nothing close to full lockdown, doesn't work. Well expalin why you don't think it works with reference to this data about Warrington. The axes are (Y) rolling 7 day average of new cases in a population the size of Warrington and (X) the date. The blue line is Warrington and it sure looks like the measures worked to me. That downward slope is equivalent to an R number currently at 0.8 or less (you can only make an estimate of R it is impossible to do properly) That stunning improvement is why Warrington got a mention by Boris in tonight's press conference as well as Liverpool. Edited November 30, 2020 by Confused52 Save limited space - graph out of date Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer II Posted November 27, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2020 imo there will be a number of deaths recorded only as pneumonia on the death certificate, at the end of last year; as the medics didn't know covid19 existed at that time. 😷 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted November 27, 2020 Report Share Posted November 27, 2020 The government is trying to claim that the dramatic fall in the infection rate in Liverpool has been caused by the mass testing they put in place. Ignoring the fact that the fall n rates began before the mass testing started, can anyone explain how measuring something can change the rate of what you are measuring? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer II Posted November 27, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2020 Think we've said, that "mass" testing is pointless exercise; as it doesn't prevent spread. Testing should be used as a means of screening access to high risk areas such as Hospitals and Care Homes, and thus provide regular and instant identification of infection. It should also be used, when the spread reduces to identify new cases and trace contacts. So I think we can agree that Liverpool was a PR stunt. 😷 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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