So How's Life In The Uk?

[fixitsan]

I'm not trying to belittle the impact of the virus, nor its significance, but I can't help but compare the total cases in the UK (300K), with the UK population as a whole (67 million).

 

Admittedly, whichever way you look ta it COVID has had a far higher fatality rate than flu, but in the context of the population as a whole it's still not astronomical. 

 

 

 

The WHO reports through their flu-net monitoring system , that worldwide, annual seasonal flu deaths are between 290,000 - 650,000 . Covid has yet to reach that higher figure. And the flu cases are tested cases, covid deaths frequently aren't tested, as a result of directive that a certain diagnosis is not necessary.

 

In the UK, we have had as many as 64,000 seasonal flu deaths in recent years.

 

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/commiss...96.article