There's something I'm not getting here. If the avg symptoms-to-death time's just under 18 days & average contraction to symptoms time is just over 5, that means 23 days from contracting CV to death. 563 died on 31-Mar. So if that's 0.6% of cases, 93800 people got CV on 8-Mar+
+Note that that's *got* it that day. Not *had* it. Deaths are growing abt 24% per day. So if 93.8k got it on 8-Mar, 117k got it on 9-Mar & so on. So by 23-Mar 2.44m people wld hv bn getting CV per day.+
(Yes. You read that right. 2.44m per day.)
+So far, so straightfwd. Now here comes the 1st bad bit. If 2,440k (2.44m) got it on 23-Mar (the day the lockdown occurred in the evening), 0.6% of them will die 23 days later - 15 April (abt when the govt says deaths will peak). But that's 14,700 deaths that day.+
+OK. That seems bad, you might say. But it's only the start. Apparently with the lockdown we've now cut the R0 to 0.6%. So each person gives it to only 0.6 other folk. So the 2.44m that got it on 23-March will give it to only 1.47m, & so on.+
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