Coronavirus has exposed the myth of British exceptionalism

theguardian.com

8 pointskaisix2 comments

Looking at the data

The UK is at 132 deaths / million, while France is above 200 and Spain and Italy are above 300.

Germany is around 30, but there are reports that cadavers are not being tested there, which would skew the numbers.

>Looking at the data

Yep, what we don't know (actually I believe noone does)is whether there is an offset or delay between the infection stages of the various countries.

If you look at the same data plotted attempting to align rates, it does seem like the UK is on a preoccupying trend:

specifically:

From the "shape" of :

Daily New Deaths in the United Kingdom

here:

compared with this:

Daily New Deaths in Italy

it does seem like the UK is a couple weeks behind Italy.