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it's still worth remembering that it's not all fine.
As of yesterday, the UK had 36,931 patients with Covid in hospital, of whom 3,937 on ventilation (I assume in ICU).
Italy, which is the only country I know how to get data from, has 20,788 patients in hospital and 2,288 in ICU. The UK's population is 10% larger than Italy's, so there's that, but the numbers are almost 50% higher especially for gravely ill patients.
We're very much not out of the woods yet and, with about 11% of the population partially vaccinated (I'm still skeptical about that 12 weeks lag) we won't be for long. Opening up now risks repeating a second December cock-up...
sources
https://lab.gedidigital.it/gedi-visu...agi-in-italia/
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare
I'm not sure anyones suggesting we are out of the woods yet, but certainly en route. Removing emotion, is having 36k patients in hospital going to have any real impact on hospital figures in 6 weeks time? Infections are half of what they were a couple of weeks back and the over 80s/care home residents make up 2/3 of the deaths, for which over 80% have been vaccinated, which should fully reflect by early March
Just realised I don't know the answer to this... does a vaccines efficacy mean the % it protects against hospitalisation, death, or catching Covid in the first place?