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Well... could it be that this is the case because of the few tests they're doing right now? Yesterday, as per the BBC's website, 19,000 tests had been done in the UK. On the same day in Italy there had been 60,000 and more in Germany.
Going back on topic, I read today that Emirates is extending its flight cancellations until July 1st, which is quite telling. That's a good yardstick to aim for: personally, I think this summer will be a write-off. Which government will allow flights, in the current conditions, to places like the US where you are having (only case in the world as far as I can see) people actively defying the stay-at-home orders to go out and protest?
Wouldn't say hospital admissions are linked to testing. Well, they are, but not in the way you suggest. My point was that not as many people are presenting as critically ill as they have been preparing for - which is a good thing. We need to increase testing, of course we do. But increased testing and positives wouldn't necessarily lead to an increase in admissions. It is likely 10s of 1000s more of us have had it than the numbers suggest, having suffered no or only mild symptoms and required no medical assistance whatsoever, so, it wouldn't mean that 10s of 1000s more would have been admitted to hospital. If testing was increased and widely rolled out, as I believe it should be, what the statistics would probably be showing us is that the virus is actually far less deadly than we're statistically seeing at the moment in the UK. Because, what we'd be seeing is a vastly increased number of infections and only a fairly modest increase in deaths.