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Isn’t the issue the difference between fatality and mortality here. The latter being once it’s over?
Picking the right number for the denominator is the hard part of epidemiology and gets easier with time, but as time goes on picking the right number of the numerator becomes harder - did this person die of Covid-19 or the long term illness that had them at death's door anyway?
An R0 of 1.8 and a mortality rate of 3.4% would be very bad, you'd be looking at ~2% of the UK population dying from it all within the next 6-12 months.
Greenbank
Isn’t the issue the difference between fatality and mortality here. The latter being once it’s over?
I interpreted (because that what you have to do with Trump) to mean people will go to work with it perfectly fine. Which I’d say is the problem we face. He perhaps should have been more explicit about that not being a good idea... but with their workers rights maybe he can’t say that!?