Brendan Burgess
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Population density, public transport usage was a big part. However I also can't help but think that the "we're british" attitude also contributed, certainly after speaking to a lot of UK colleagues over the last month on calls, it took them far longer to realise this was serious then it did for us to do so..
Half our deaths are in care/nursing homes. The UK is not reporting those figures. What is the real number of deaths in the UK?
We're way behind the UK in deaths per capita. That's a log scale graph you're looking at.As this graph by Sky's Ed Conway shows in per capita terms Ireland's death rate is worse than the USA's and not far off the UK's
Statistics can be used in different ways.
As this graph by Sky's Ed Conway shows in per capita terms Ireland's death rate is worse than the USA's and not far off the UK's but then the UK figures don't include nusery and care home deaths.
The official reason for these deaths not being included immediately in the daily figures is that they take longer to gather as stats are collated from coroners' offices etc.
The UK, Spain and Italy seem to only be reporting their deaths in hospitals. Their true figures could be 50%-100% higher.We're way behind the UK in deaths per capita. That's a log scale graph you're looking at.
we seem to be doing better than the UK because no country in the world seems to be doing worse.
That is a really good way of looking at it.
So is there a league table of countries to assess how well they are doing?
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