Good point but 250,000 sounds too high. I know they reckoned by May/June c 3.5 million had caught it. Just dividing number of deaths by 0.01 is a rough rule of thumb using the 1% mortality rate. So using the within 28 day mortality figure that would mean 4.5 million of the population have had it but, given that the real death figure might be nearer 60,000 that might be 6 million. That means that there’s still 60 million of us waiting to catch it!Originally Posted by Witton Park
There’s some thought that the current mortality rate, clustered around northern and midlands cities in the main, might be a bit higher than before, despite better hospital treatments, because on average there are more poorer people in the north than the south, where the first wave mainly did its damage
