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The COVID-19 league table: should the U.K. be at the top?

Posted on May 11, 2020June 17, 2020 by chris.walker

The COVID-19 league table: should the UK be at the top? On 5 May it was announced that the U.K.’s death toll from COVID-19 was 29,427, narrowly overtaking Italy on the same day (with 29,315 deaths): this meant that the U.K. had the highest number of recorded COVID-19 deaths in Europe.…

What do the daily death rates tell us?

Posted on April 24, 2020June 17, 2020 by chris.walker

What do the daily death rates tell us? The grim statistics, released daily, on the number of new coronavirus deaths in each country are pored over by the media and policy-makers as an indicator of when the pandemic might peak, whether lockdown is working, and whether more stringent …