{"id":142280,"date":"2020-04-30T15:56:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/30\/coronavirus-deaths-how-does-britain-compare-with-other-countries-david-spiegelhalter\/"},"modified":"2020-04-30T15:56:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:56:56","slug":"coronavirus-deaths-how-does-britain-compare-with-other-countries-david-spiegelhalter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=142280","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus deaths: how does Britain compare with other countries? | David Spiegelhalter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s tempting to try to construct a league table, but we\u2019ll have to wait months, if not years, for the true picture\u2022 Coronavirus latest updates\u2022 See all our coronavirus coverageAt prime minister\u2019s questions on Wednesday, Keir Starmer said he had added up a total of 27,241 coronavirus deaths so far, leaving the UK \u201cpossibly on track to have the worst death rate in Europe\u201d.Is he right? Unfortunately, measuring the impact of the virus is a fiendishly complex task. It\u2019s nothing like keeping score in a game. Starmer, as a lawyer, would know that we have to define our terms carefully. And so, assuming we want to make a comparison based on death rates, we first need to decide what a death rate is. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/apr\/30\/coronavirus-deaths-how-does-britain-compare-with-other-countries\" target=\"_blank\">Coronavirus deaths: how does Britain compare with other countries? | David Spiegelhalter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s tempting to try to construct a league table, but we\u2019ll have to wait months, if not years, for the true picture\u2022 Coronavirus latest updates\u2022 See all our coronavirus coverageAt prime minister\u2019s questions on Wednesday, Keir Starmer said he had added up a total of 27,241 coronavirus deaths so far, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}