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Coronavirus has exposed the myth of British exceptionalism

• tomohawk 6y ago
  Looking at the data https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-covid-deaths-per-million https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-covid-deaths-per-mi... The UK is at 132 deaths / million, while France is above 200 and Spain and Italy are above 300. Germany is around 30, but there are reports that cadavers are not being tested there, which would skew the numbers.
  • jaclaz 6y ago
    >Looking at the data Yep, what we don't know (actually I believe noone does)is whether there is an offset or delay between the infection stages of the various countries. If you look at the same data plotted attempting to align rates, it does seem like the UK is on a preoccupying trend: http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/#wn2 http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/#wn2 specifically: http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/#deaths-eu-norm http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/#deaths-eu-norm From the "shape" of : Daily New Deaths in the United Kingdom here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/ compared with this: Daily New Deaths in Italy https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/ it does seem like the UK is a couple weeks behind Italy.