View this post on Hive: UK is on worse Coronavirus trajectory than Italy!
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If you think things are bad in Italy, the UK faces an even worse outcome based on its rapidly rising death rate.
It took Italy 5 days for the number of deaths to increase 5x from 21 to 107.
It only took the UK 4 days for the number of deaths to increase 5x from 21 to 104.
The UK is 14 days behind Italy and gaining! in a race that you definitely don't want to win.
It has 4 days to completely lock down the country Italy style or face far worse outcomes than Italy (which is set to shortly take China's ghoulish crown of most deaths from Coronavirus).
Remember, every death means 800-1000 real cases. Thus the UK has around 100,000 real cases but is reporting only 2% of them.
That means 98% of those infected are out there in the wild spreading the disease!
Do we know that? I've seen estimates from 0.1% to 5% lethal infections. Hard to measure when countries have different standards for testing. One thing is certain: the UK and other European countries like the Netherlands are not doing enough tests. Not even simple fever checks.
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The rough calculation of 800-1000 real cases per death is based on the death rate; the doubling time for cases and the fact that it takes around 17 days to die. Details are in this paper: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca
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