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28/03/2020 GMT

Covid-19: The risks

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Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter puts the risks of Covid-19 into perspective

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, puts the risks of Covid-19 into perspective.

This week the UK responded to the coronavirus pandemic by going into the same kind of public lockdown many other countries are already experiencing. 
 
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, puts the risks of Covid-19 into perspective. He found that the proportion of people who get infected by coronavirus, who then go on to die increases with age, and the trend matches almost exactly how our background mortality risk also goes up. Catching the disease could be like packing a year’s worth of risk into a couple of weeks.

(Mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter at the University of Cambridge. Credit: In Pictures Ltd./ Corbis via Getty Images)

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