NicoleC1971
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- Type of diabetes
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I give up!!!! This was quoted from a government website https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid#status-of-covid-19 and it has not been updated since. By this stage in March there was a lot of data from Italy and China but you are correct to state that we hadn't reached our peak death rate (April 8th) in the UK and we were terrified that our beloved NHS (now the National Covid Service) would collapse.Are you sure of this date? Before the huge number of deaths and lockdown?
That shows how out of touch the government were. Perhaps not the point you intended to make.
Clearly it is a disease of very high consequence if you died from it yet 99.9% of us didn't.
So as a type 1 diabetic I take the general population mortality of 0.1 and multiply by 2.86 and come out at 0.286% whereas my 80+ father in law (non obese but type 2 diabetic) comes out much higher at 9.6%.
I would take those odds and I'd suggest he continues to shield if he's happy to.