Last week #COVID19 cases per 100k
🇬🇧 441
🇫🇷 57
🇪🇸 29
🇮🇹 45
🇩🇪 129
It was difficult, though, to make direct comparisons, said Prof Sir Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, because of variation in testing rates.
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thetimes.co.uk/article/572c38…
🇬🇧 441
🇫🇷 57
🇪🇸 29
🇮🇹 45
🇩🇪 129
It was difficult, though, to make direct comparisons, said Prof Sir Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, because of variation in testing rates.
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thetimes.co.uk/article/572c38…
“If you look across western Europe, we have about ten times more tests done each day than some other countries per head of population,” he told MPs.
Hospital admissions and death rates are a more reliable comparison.
Daily deaths per million
🇬🇧 2
🇫🇷 0.5
🇩🇪 0.7
Hospital admissions and death rates are a more reliable comparison.
Daily deaths per million
🇬🇧 2
🇫🇷 0.5
🇩🇪 0.7
European scientists, doctors and researchers are watching our freewheeling party with a mixture of horror and inquisitiveness.
“I feel amazed that during a pandemic, despite any scientific evidence, politicians [in the UK] can make such sensational mistakes, risking compromising health and the economy only to obtain consensus,” said Nino Cartabellotta, president of 🇮🇹 Group for Evidence-based Medicine.
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