Coronavirus

[Mark G]

This week's More or Less on BBC R4 this morning had some interesting stats on the virus. It's worth a listen I kthink, regardless of your views on the BBC or on stats being capable of proving anything. If I understood some of it correctly your chance of dieing of this so far if you are a healthy adult between 15 and 65 is 1 in 19000. Also the number of deaths amongst health workers may not be statistically very much higher than the rate in the general population (accepting that if they ran out of PPE things would change). There's also some interesting stuff about death rate comparisons by country. Make if it what you will but I usually find this programme full of common sense and helps put things in context. They have some interesting things to say about the peak too - one argument is that it occurred a couple of weeks ago.