#Deaths

Kit Yates

Kit_Yates_Maths

If I’d been wrong as often as most of this lot, I’d probably keep my head down.“...SARS-Cov-2 virus in the UK has become demonstrably less fatal than seasonal influenza viruses.”https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9507449/Scien

InProportion2

InProportion2

1/5Important comments from statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter:* The risk of coronavirus for the young is “staggeringly low”,* the government’s handling of Covid-19 is “embarrassing” 2/5* Gov's treatment of statistics was

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

ONS

We've also published our figures for deaths registered in the week ending 15 May http://ow.ly/HqRT50zPWr1 Please note: the early May Bank Holiday contributed to both the decrease in the number

Al Rush

exRAF_Al

But there’s another, potentially even more serious problem: the way that deaths are recorded. If someone dies of a respiratory infection in the UK, the specific cause of the infection

Brian Wesbury

wesbury

Table 3 of the CDC’s data on deaths between 2/1 and 8/22 2020 says directly that only 6% of the 161,392 reported COVID deaths were listed as COVID-19 alone, just

Anuj 'staythefhome' Pradhan

DriverScience

Massachusetts cases.... As of 4pm, Friday March 27. 3240 confirmed. 35 deaths. 20 confirmed cases in Hampshire county. https://www.mass.gov/doc/covid-19-cases-in-massachusetts-as-of-march-27-2020/download(graphs from https://www.politico.com/interact

Nigel Marriott

MarriottNigel

Today I have a thread on latest trends for #covid19 deaths in the UK at the request of @BristOliver I will start with the usual chart I've been showing for

dani #JoinAUnion

anthroqveer

So level 5 — the “worst” level — is an overwhelming of the NHS. Not the highest no. of deaths in Europe (& 2nd in the world). No, it doesn’t

ScienceVet

ScienceVet2

"More people die of the flu every year, you're just fear mongering"No, more than 140k Americans do NOT die from flu a year. No matter how you calculate them.2017-18 was

Ragnarlactaka

Ragnar17x

Out of the 167,558 COVID-19 related deaths, only 10,053 (6%) mentioned COVID-19 as the only cause of death. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average,

Matt Finkes

MattFinkes

Looking into what is happening in Sweden a little more (they are close to Ohio in pop, both around 11M). % of population over age 65: Ohio 16.2% Sweden 26.2%.

Magilla Gorilla 39

39Magilla

(1) Updated United States #COVID19 Death Estimates based on "Excess Natural Deaths" and the CDC "Weekly Counts of Deaths by State and Select Causes" Dataset, updated 7/29US Undercount fairly constant

Mike Morris

1MikeMorris

Canada has surpassed 300 Covid 19 deaths today. The USA has surpassed 10,000 deaths today. #TeamTrudeau receives no credit for this but they deserve plenty. Despite the huge variance in

David Paton

cricketwyvern

Whether or not you think local lockdowns work (& the evidence so far is ... not great), given the huge costs they impose, they should only be considered when there

Dave Levitan

davelevitan

Take the total US deaths in the War in Afghanistan PLUS the Iraq War (the ones that have gone on for two decades), subtract 1,767, and you get to how

BBC News (World)

BBCWorld

Comparing coronavirus deaths between countries can be tricky The US has the highest number of recorded Covid-19 deaths in total (over 40,000) but it’s important to compare deaths by population