Healdplace
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They are because the vaccinations - which we are well ahead on - with pretty much all the most vulnerable doyble jabbed - have entirely changed the dynamics.These all seem like staggeringly LOW NUMBERS given the population you’re talking about.
The wave in January saw only about 4 or 5 times as many cases as now but 100 times as many deaths and 30 times as many people in hospital and 30 times as many on ventilators.
This is because the vaccines have worked very well indeed. And almost no (well it is under 1 in 20) of todays cases are over 60 and 4 out of 5 are young who hardly ever get very sick.
So this is more a cases pandemic now than a heath care crisis. If numbers do not go out of control whilst w finish the vaccinations in next couple of months we SHOULD be fine.
We would be fully opening up now were it not for this highly infectious new variant. But happily it came late enough we had got well into the vaccination programme first. And we might just about get away with it.