23-12-2020, 11:41 AM
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Re: Chinese Coronavirus
UK
Cases
2,110,314 Change: 36,803
Deaths 68,307 Change: 691
Critical 1,364
Cases per Million
31,008
This is very misleading.....
Cases per million 31,008
Is based on the 2 million plus, but that is a rolling total from last March!
It suggests that there are 2 million people walking around with covid now. And also suggests that for every million people in the UK that 31,008 people will have covid....Most of those who were reported as having covid on the 2 million list will have long since recovered.
Therefore: there will not be 31,008 people with covid for every million people today. I doubt whether the true figure would even be 1% of that.
If we add together all the new infections for the last 7 days we find 355345
Then if we divide 68 million by 355345 we arrive at 191 people per million.
Even allowing for twice that many people to have been infected and not being diagnosed or tested, we still only have 400 per million.
And after fourteen days there should be no risk of infection, so a new list would be started...
so 31,008 is the 11 month average.....But not live cases...
Based on this way of demonstrating the figures, in ten years time the number of people per million would be an astronomical amount.....Perhaps even 999,000 per million, but fortunately no longer a risk. Still frightening people all the same.