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Which was the right strategy in the circumstances. How much of that capacity was used in the event. How many nightingale hospitals were at full capacity. You sa

Which was the right strategy in the circumstances. How much of that capacity was used in the event. How many nightingale hospitals were at full capacity. You say 60000 deaths, based on what evidence, because at the moment we don’t know how many deaths have been misclassified as COVID when they weren’t.

majewsky 6y ago
For evidence, look for reports of "excess mortality", i.e. how many people died this year compared to the same period of time in the average year. Some quick googling finds an ONS report of an excess mortality for 64,500 as of 2 days ago, which confirms the numbers of GP.
DanBC 6y ago
> based on what evidence, There's lots of evidence. See, for example, this: https://ltccovid.org/2020/04/12/mortality-associated-with-covid-19-outbreaks-in-care-homes-early-international-evidence/ https://ltccovid.org/2020/04/12/mortality-associated-with-co... > Data from England illustrates well the importance of paying attention to differences in definitions and methods used to estimate these percentages: the share of all probable COVID-19 deaths in care homes is 27%, whereas the share of probable deaths of care residents is 38%. The share of excess deaths in care homes during the pandemic has been 44% and the share of deaths of care home residents is 52% of all excess deaths. Also, in France, deaths in care homes are 34% of all COVID-19 deaths, whereas deaths of care home residents are 51%. That's from May. Since then we discharged a bunch of people from hospital to care and nursing homes, without testing whether they had covid-19 or not.