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An ICU admission rate of 0.22/100k per week would give 13.2 new ICU cases per week assuming a London population of 6 million.
As of yesterday, there are 230 ventilated C19 patients in London. These have presented almost entirely in the previous 10 days. Even if you assume that’s 2 weeks worth of admissions it’s a rate of ~2/100k population, so 10x your flu figure.
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My conclusion was that infection rate is higher, deaths are massively higher and has been much worse going back.
Have you fact checked the weekly documented number in hospital per week/100k from influenza?
As an example this is week 49 December 12th 2019
Hospitalisations in ONE WEEK from influenza 5.0/100k
ICU cases for ONE week 0.22 cases/100k
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/851695/Weekly_national_influenza_report_week_50.pdf
Go further back Week 3 for 2017, 0.48 ICU cases per 100k reported across 116 from the 144 Trusts at the time.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/676759/Weekly_national_influenza_report_week_04_2018.pdf
Which is putting more people in hospital per week, the bigger threat is not from C.19