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156 people died of covid in the UK yesterday. Per capita that's more than in the USA.
by Causality1 5y ago
156 people died of covid in the UK yesterday. Per capita that's more than in the USA.
- C19is20 5y agoI heard Ronaldo played a blinder.
- aaronmdjones 5y ago> 156 people died of covid in the UK yesterday. This may be highly inflated. As far as I understand it, and implied by e.g. [1], UK COVID daily death cases are "if you had a positive result in the last 28 days and you die". So it includes, for example, heart attacks, strokes, and being run over by a bus. [1] https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths
- Causality1 5y agoEven going by the "covid on death certificate" number, it's 109 a day. Adjusted for population it's almost as bad as the science-denying shitshow that is half the US right now. Compare that to countries who actually have it under control like Australia and Taiwan, who had eight and zero deaths yesterday.
- ctrlp 5y agoHard to catch Covid when you can't leave your house without a visit from the goon squad.
- aaronmdjones 5y agoYeah, I'm not trying to diminish the situation; it's appalling. I'm just pointing out that relying on figures with unknown (or in this case, frankly ridiculous) methodologies to make comparisons to other countries (which will have different methodologies again) muddies the water at best.
- Causality1 5y agoQuite right, and that wasn't my goal anyway. I was just making the point that lifting mask restrictions and having large social gatherings does not mean we have the pandemic under control.