I haven't checked recently but last time I looked, Germany had about 30% of our death rate.
Of major countries only Spain and Italy surpass UK and not by much, so I would say we are in the premier league for high deaths.
This means very little until you start to dig. Roughly two thirds of UK CV deaths come from people in care homes and/or people over 80. Britain is usually regarded as having a young population.
Both Spain and Italy have a significantly higher median age than UK. Oddly enough, so does Germany.
I suspect we would have looked a lot better if we hadn't made such a cock of the care home situation early on.
The first lockdown was late, in hindsight. My heart consultant says I almost certainly caught it in January. Lack of testing early on almost certainly meant cases were badly underestimated until they became serious enough to translate into extra hospital cases.
The infection rate is unknown, surely?
P.S.
What is surprising is that we have a higher per capita death rate than the US, given they have 70 million gun toting idiots who probably think shooting the virus is the way ahead and a President who basically did the opposite of what was sensible about half the time.
Last edited by: Manatee on Wed 16 Dec 20 at 18:21
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