Focusing on Covid stats that matter | Barrington declaration Redux

Well said Finn! I’ve been saying for a rooooly long time that obsession with case numbers is silly. And all the more so now with Omicron where the tested numbers are way below actual infection rates. By how much we don’t know but maybe up to ten times. With a less severe infection we need to focus on things like hospitalisation and ICU bed occupancy. As neighbour of ours Finn Nielsen says in today’s SCMP letters. 

Also today: an article by Phil Chan and Nicola de Jager, “Turning a deaf ear” suggesting we adopt a “focused protection” strategy per the March 2020 Barrington Declaration which was hammered at the time because it was didn’t fit the then narrative of widespread undifferentiated lockdowns and NPIs until vaccines. (And even then, for us here in Hong Kong). So interesting that’s it’s now being talked about again, and in the South China Morning Post: