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I'm sure that will be the case but I just have a feeling that when we look back in a decade that there is a big spike and then a trough.
It's awful though and if I were sick with C19 and looking to lose my last year or two I'd feel rightly upset.
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That’s just the attitude that allows us to collectively shrug off the 40,000 plus premature deaths from air pollution a year.
But we don’t even bother to shut down half the economy and bankrupt the country for that.
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There have been some really young deaths, some middle aged deaths.
What needs to happen is a look at the deaths and deprivation.
But I think this is key:
From the guardianThe new figures also reveal the age groups of those who have died to date. More than half of the patients (52%) who have died with coronavirus were over 80 years of age. Most of the other deaths (40%) were among patients aged between 60 and 79. A further 7% of deaths occurred in those aged between 40 and 59.
Less than 1% of the victims were under 40. The figures show three deaths in the under-20 category, and a further 22 victims aged between 20 and 39. A 13-year-old boy who died at King’s College hospital is believed to be the youngest victim so far.lines starting with a 'greater than' denote quoted text
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If hospitals are running at or over capacity, people who otherwise might have received treatment and lived may die. That's what the whole 'excess deaths' analysis tells us. Some of those people might have had half their lives ahead of them.