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Estimates are now up to 2 million by the end of the month, untested I think.
At that speed covid will be done by February.
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sage doc says "These are not forecasts or predictions."
If we got there the country would implode, no services would be running, shops closed, half of the country isolating through contacts etc
Tim Spector of Zoe also quoted the 2m cases/day but mentioned that behavioural changes would mean that number is never hit.
Although having said all that, my sister has also just tested positive and is missing Christmas so maybe I'm wrong!
apc
willing to bet its usual tabloid bollocks taking stuff out of context
my guess, if you can find the source of the quote is it will be illustrating how quick the doubling time of Omicron is and how small number of cases can grow so rapidly.
"20k becomes 40k in 5 days which then means it could get to 1mil by x date, to give you an idea of how fast the exponential growth is, however that is unlikely to reach that peak "
my guess..