By any measure, Britain has suffered the deadliest coronavirus outbreak in Europe. The apparent return of excess deaths to the normal level has been welcomed but experts warned that coronavirus had not gone away.
David Spiegelhalter, chairman of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge, noted that 783 deaths involving COVID-19 were still registered in the week to June 19.
"The lack of excess deaths is explained by non-COVID deaths being eight percent below the five-year average," he said.
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{ So why are non-Covid deaths down 8% in the UK? Perhaps “Social Distancing is reducing Noro virus, MRSA, RSV, Influenza and other infectious diseases? Or maybe less people going to hospitals means less deadly medical errors? In the past when MDs and Nurses went on strike deaths also went down}
