The link that follows is to a page of the Office for National Statistics website:
6. Deaths registered in the year-to-date, week 1 to 14
Scroll down to the segment headed:
'Figure 5: The number of deaths involving COVID-19 for females was lower than males in all age groups'. Note that there are no deaths in the first two age groups: under a year old and 1 - 14 (although there has been a death of a 13 year old boy since this was published). The next age group of 15 - 44 is the really interesting one - 29 male and 23 female - a total of just 52 deaths. Unfortunately, I can't find the data to confirm this but, according to someone interviewed on BBC Radio 4 yesterday, all but 9 of these had underlying health issues. 7 men and just 2 women if I remember rightly. That's the total for the year to date - just 9 people under 45 with no co-morbid conditions have died from the virus. To put this into some sort of context, 5 people die
every single day in road traffic accidents, yet I don't hear anyone demanding that we all stop driving cars to save lives.
What this says to me is that we can - and should - get children back in schools, older pupils back in universities and the rest of the under 45 age group that are fit and well back into work asap. That action alone would prevent many businesses from going under and many jobs from being lost. But I doubt it'll happen, as one preventable death is one too many. Crazy!
Tim.