Confused. Projected uk death rate due to Coronavirus.

That's interesting. Just shows how figures can be misleading.

The Times says today that Britian is on course to get to about 5,700 deaths in all. This is much much much lower than the quarter of a million that was feared not so long ago.

Germany is using a different way of counting. As I understand it, if someone who has an underlying health issue dies when they've also been infected with covid19, then the underlying health issue is given as cause of death, not covid. In Britain if someone infected with covid dies, covid is given as cause of death even if they also have underlying health issues which will have contributed to their death too. This is why Germany's numbers are lower.

A bit of my post was missing. It should have said "So far there have been 1,019 in the UK out of that 29,951. Therefore our final figure will probably be about one thirtieth of the total final world figure"

Greymar I think Eglantine was looking at the same report I was.

52bright I am reading right now that world deaths so far are 29,951 www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ not that the possible final figure could be 29,000. so far there have been 1,019.

There have been various estimates of the possible number of deaths in the UK. It seems it could be somewhere between 4,700 and whatever number you care to think of. ANY number is too many, but below 20,000 would be a proportion of the final world total which matches our population as a proportion of the world's population. We are NOT in for a worse death rate than the rest of the world.

How do you know this please Eg?

Because 29000 is only the start. You probably need to add at least another two noughts to that.

The death rates for seasonal flu are about 17,000 in a bad year, but that doesn't get the publicity, and like this virus it is usually the old and vulnerable who die. Harsh, but true.