Various statistic on the virus are commonly watched - one is the daily death rate in a region. My wife asked "but how many people die per day in total other than due to the virus?". Good question - it is never stated!
It's a very interesting statistic.
Checking the data I find that in 2018 there were 616 010 deaths in the UK, so 1688 per day. Therefore in the UK now with 938 deaths yesterday, that's an extra 55% making Covid-19 by far the leading cause of death (over 3 times the rate of heart disease and massively greater than the flu)
At the same time, the Covid-19 pandemic by increasing the risk of death by 55% takes your chance of death on any particular day from 25 up to 39 in 100000. In my mind this means that if you weren't worried about imminent death before Coronavirus, you shouldn't be particularly more worried now - your chance of death remains low.
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