Shard

Deaths per million (Worldometer)

Italy 1367
UK 1320
USA 1231
France 1082
Sweden 1019
Germany 573
Ireland 527
Canada 478
China 61
Japan 36
Australia 35
Thailand 1

scrubbedexpat142

Well, the current UK politicians keep withering on about "world beating". They got it right with this one, very sadly.

Shard

Channel 4 doesn't seem overly enamoured with the Tories.

scrubbedexpat142

Interesting. I have only been logging the total EU/EEA figure.

However, fwiw, the latest Worldometer figure for the UK is 1348 (89,860 / 66.65).

Of course, the latest debate is based on the 7 day average. Tonight's UK figure will be revealing.

Shard

On the Worldometer page I'm checking (global comparison) in the Deaths per million column it reads 1320 ??

Which page are you using?

scrubbedexpat142

Given that the majority of deaths appear to occur in the over 65s it might be instructive to throw the relative proportion of this demographic into the mix -

US: 15%
UK: 18%
Italy: 23%

scrubbedexpat142

Front page, 89,860 deaths / 66.65 million. I guess their population figure is different, I must check!

scrubbedexpat142

Can you point the way, can't seem to find it!

Shard

This page:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

If you scroll down a large table appears.

Jingsamichty

Indeed, Channel 4, The Guardian and The Independent are the only media sources which aim to hold the Government to account with any determination. The rest of the print media is either wilfully obsequious or more interested in celebs than current affairs. The BBC gets equally bashed by all sides so I guess they are as impartial as it's possible to be.

scrubbedexpat142

This is how the picture is changing -

January 12 - 18 inclusive -

Italy deaths: 3351
UK deaths: 7900

(& rest of UK weekend's deaths yet to come).

Not good.

ETA: UK deaths figure just come in, 1610. Highest yet.

Danny B

Reading a number doesn't hit you as hard as googling an image of 1,500 people. Truly shocking.

Jerseygirl

I have moved the off topic posts into a new thread...

Off Topic Posts moved from Coronavirus thread

Thank you very muchly.

Shard

That's true. I liked the analogy I read somewhere that it's like 2-3 jumbo jets falling out of the sky each day. I think there's a huge disconnect between the public and the data. TV shows an ICU with a handful or even a dozen beds, it doesn't show hundreds of dead.

Jingsamichty

Best number comparison analogy I've heard is 1 million compared to 1 billion.

One million seconds is 11 days.

One billion seconds is 32 years.