yep was talking to a friend today who lives in preston and i have not been able to visit him since summer hols as no visitors are allowed inside a house in that area.. but back then it had 30 cases per 100k and now say it’s risen to 600 per 100k sounds like a huge rise yes.
So lets do the math and divide them 30/100,000=0.0003 and 600/100,000=0.006.
also the r rate if below 1 means no one is infecting anyone as you cannot infect less than a whole person..
Then there was a head of a council in tone of the area’s of manchester he was talking about the icu’s and how this time of the year cases rise and in his area there 8 covid patients in icu of 16 beds and in another area there 200 icu beds and 16 covid cases taking up the beds. So the figures are being miss-quoted and used because the beds are full and it’s normal that. it’s because the nhs is not got the beds as we told every year when flu season comes along.. years and years of neglect.. There is more to this that what they say and using the figures to try and scare ppl.. thats another age old tactic.