Will the UK really have the highest death toll in Europe?

Virology expert looks at the data on predicted Covid-19 fatalities in the UK

Coronavirus in London
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Jeremy Rossman, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Virology at the University of Kent and President of Research-Aid Networks, examines the UK death toll in an article originally written for The Conversation.

Within four months, the UK will have 66,314 fatalities from Covid-19, according to a recent report from the University of Washingon’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). This would result in the UK having the highest number of fatalities out of any country in Europe – according to the report, more than Italy (a total of 23,000) and Spain (19,209).

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