Working out death rate for anything is surprisingly complex. Countries count deaths using very different methods (someone who tested positive and died in hospi

Working out death rate for anything is surprisingly complex. Countries count deaths using very different methods (someone who tested positive and died in hospital; someone who tested positive and died anywhere; someone presumed positive with covid mentioned as cause on death certificate; all cause mortality etc etc). Some of these figures are affected by amount of testing available. Eventually we will get a number for the death rate of covid-19, but that will have lots of caveats around age and comorbidities. At the moment the UK is severely undercounting deaths directly caused by covid-19, and isn't counting deaths indirectly caused by covid-19. The Kings Fund has an excellent explainer here: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/deaths-covid-19 https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/deaths-covid-19 NHS England+Improvement have some notes on their data here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/ https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas... The Office for National Statistics have a nice (but out of date) page here: https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2020/03/31/counting-deaths-involving-the-coronavirus-covid-19/ https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2020/03/31/counting-deaths-involving... Chris Hatton has a great thread about the mortality statistics for people with learning disability and or autism: https://twitter.com/chrishattoncedr/status/1260967567155515398?s=20 https://twitter.com/chrishattoncedr/status/12609675671555153... And Nick Stripe has a twitter thread here: https://twitter.com/NickStripe_ONS/status/1261244415416377344 https://twitter.com/NickStripe_ONS/status/126124441541637734... Another paper on UK care homes: https://ltccovid.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/England-mortality-among-care-home-residents-report-12-May.pdf https://ltccovid.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/England-mort... This is for France, and it's pretty good: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/05/12/science.abc3517 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/05/12/scie...