“But if deaths don’t rise, it will be because healthier people are getting infected and we are better at protecting the vulnerable.”There is also the possibility that the virus isn’t as deadly. The median age of people currently in hospital with Covid in Birmingham and Manchester is between 45 and 55. “And in study this week found that 85% people who left hospital after Covid need long-term health care. “What we’ve seen this year is that countries that take decisions early before things get terrible have done the best. And recently we have seen, in France and Spain, how waiting too long a second time can be equally disastrous.

Source: Daily Mirror September 17, 2020 20:03 UTC