The majority of deaths are expected to come in the small number of already vaccinated people who remain susceptibleThe number of Britons forecast to die in a summer wave of Covid has been cut to 10,000 by Sage modellers, as data shows vaccines beating expectations. According to government advisers, in the most likely scenarios between 7,250 and 9,000 people will be killed by Covid after the country opens up. SponsoredIn March the teams, from Imperial College and Warwick, estimated 15,700 and 18,600 deaths respectively. At the start of the year their predictions had been several times higher. There is still considerable uncertainty in the figures, and advisers believe that it is possible that retaining some behavioural changes such as working from home, as well as a very high vaccine uptake among the under-50s, could provide “an opportunity to keep the next resurgence very

Source: The Times May 10, 2021 22:52 UTC