UK’s shrinking second wave COVID-19 death rate ‘biased’ by testing | Sky News Australia

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An infectious diseases expert says the discrepancy between the UK’s soaring daily infection rate and the mortality count compared to the first wave is a result of missed cases in the beginning.

“It’s really a function I think of, in the UK in particular, they missed most of their cases during their first wave,” ANU Professor Peter Collignon said. “I have relatives in the UK who I’m pretty sure had COVID, but they couldn’t get a test, and they were young, and they recovered.” Professor Collignon told Sky News host Chris Kenny that while treatment had improved since the pandemic began, it was still not “all that flash”.

“It’s better supportive care, better fluids, we know more about the clotting. “So, yes, the deaths are lower but I think it’s mainly an artifact related to the age of the people being tested.” Professor Collignon said people in their 20s and 30s have a mortality rate of about one in 10,000 while people above the age of 85 have a one in three chance. “So the age of the people getting infected has a big effect,” he said.

 

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Well if it is the result of missed cases in the beginning then that is the complete and utter incompetent government not using the technology at hand to actually test for Coronavirus using the correct virology system required. Instead this is the Scamdemic narrative to doomsday

Trump already proved that it's not lethal. Stop the freaking hysteria

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