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GoatandTricycle

This is the ONS deaths by occupation page

There were 139 deaths involving the coronavirus (COVID-19) in teaching and educational professionals aged 20 to 64 years registered between 9 March and 28 December 2020 in England and Wales. For both sexes, rates of death involving COVID-19 for this group were statistically significantly lower than the rate of death involving COVID-19 among those of the same age and sex, with 18.4 deaths per 100,000 males (66 deaths) and 9.8 deaths per 100,000 females (73 deaths), compared with 31.4 and 16.8 deaths per 100,000 in the population among males and females respectively.

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grams in reply to @GoatandTricycle

Covid isn't a particularly deadly disease in working age people, so using deaths as a metric doesn't tell you a lot. Infection or hospitalisation rates would be more useful.

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GoatandTricycle in reply to @grams

Ok but I'm not sure I follow.
Surely Deaths> Hospitalisation> Infections, granted somewhere in that needs to be long term effects but I still think death is the most important metric?

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