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Thread #167504   Message #4130980
Posted By: Steve Shaw
04-Jan-22 - 01:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: New news on the pandemic COVID-19
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic COVID-19
We have over 200,000 reported infections in a day. As our population is about a fifth of yours, that makes us about equal. Note the word "reported." Because this is a milder disease, and because most of us have been jabbed, there's bound to be massive under-reporting of infections. If a third of people don't know they have it, and children just get a bit sniffly as they do every winter, and lots of people with mild symptoms won't report, it could be that the reported numbers could be underestimates by a massive amount. That could be good news as it means that the virus may soon have nowhere to go. Of course, a new variant could scuttle any early optimism.