If I was at the covid Press Conference on the winter plan, I'd ask this. If we are, as supposed, at an inflexion point, say roughly holding cases constant.... all the things coming are working to push up on cases. Schools. Universities. Returning to work. Seasonal factors..
...seasonality pushing up on NHS demand, shrinking the number of cases we want [because it increases the chance of having to triage and kill more covid patients], waning immunity.
Pushing down, we have booster jabs for old codgers, 1 jab for 12-15s. Is that enough to counter these other things?
Also - and no-one asked this - we are running at 180 deaths per day. Or not much short of 1k a week. Are we happy with that? It is very curious not to have mask mandates at a minimum when deaths are so high.
Finally, if I was presenting at the Press Conference on the other side of the table, I would have pointed out what an idiot @peston was blogging about and misunderstanding the numbers of old people with covid and why.
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