Looking at the daily Covid figures here and in the UK ( Ican't help myself).. The UK shows cases running on a day to day basis around the 30-36k mark with deaths around 150 per day. In a single month that adds up to around 1 million people... According to BBC figures ... So far, more than 48 million people have had a first vaccine dose - 89% of over-16s - and more than 44 million - 82% of over-16s - have had both doses. The number of first doses administered each day is now averaging about 24,000 - far below a peak of some 500,000 in mid-March.An average of about 52,000 second doses are now being given a day. Given those statistics it suggest that, since the hosptials are not overloaded with ICU patients many of those testing positive have been asymptomatic or at worst have flu like systems needing no hospitalisation. So if 9 out of 10 are vaccinated is it not about time the reports changed the priorities of the headline statistics and focused more on figures like the hospital admissions and acute cases. I cannot help but think we are approaching the stage where long term we are on par with flu stats when it comes to deaths, albeit 150 per day is still higher than the averaage of around 90 per day each year from flu and pneumonia. That can of course be, in part, explained by the fact that flu has been around a long time and the most vulnerable, even with annual variants have some resistance built up. Cancer deaths however exceed 450 per day but we dont get daily figures for those. In short ...why the obsession with 'New Cases'?
