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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce_ma gooshvili" data-source="post: 1069448" data-attributes="member: 74121"><p>You are quite right fo query things. I'm going off the BBC report below i posted earlier stating daily deaths of 300 during that flu which is in line with the figures of 20,000 deaths during that winter. It also includes a link to another report from the time explaining how the health service was struggling.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59909860[/URL]</p><p></p><p>The issue is that figures are not recorded the same for flu as with Covid-19, with most likely flu related deaths being categorised as pneumonia. It is pneumonia plus flu that brings the 20k figure which I roughly translate to around 200 deaths per day during the seasonal flu period (say 3.5 months in winter = 100 days).</p><p></p><p>There is debate around this matter, and I don't have the stats to hand, but I read that 70-80% of vulnerable age groups receive the flu vaccine. My argument is that it is difficult to consider that the health service would progress a mass vaccination policy as that if they truly considered there would only be 300 or so deaths (in a bad year) annually over the main flu months, it wouldn't seem very proportionate. I'd assume that the annual mass flu vaccination programme is in response to consideration that 20k flu deaths in a year is a possibility.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce_ma gooshvili, post: 1069448, member: 74121"] You are quite right fo query things. I'm going off the BBC report below i posted earlier stating daily deaths of 300 during that flu which is in line with the figures of 20,000 deaths during that winter. It also includes a link to another report from the time explaining how the health service was struggling. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59909860[/URL] The issue is that figures are not recorded the same for flu as with Covid-19, with most likely flu related deaths being categorised as pneumonia. It is pneumonia plus flu that brings the 20k figure which I roughly translate to around 200 deaths per day during the seasonal flu period (say 3.5 months in winter = 100 days). There is debate around this matter, and I don't have the stats to hand, but I read that 70-80% of vulnerable age groups receive the flu vaccine. My argument is that it is difficult to consider that the health service would progress a mass vaccination policy as that if they truly considered there would only be 300 or so deaths (in a bad year) annually over the main flu months, it wouldn't seem very proportionate. I'd assume that the annual mass flu vaccination programme is in response to consideration that 20k flu deaths in a year is a possibility. [/QUOTE]
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