Final UK coronavirus death toll could be worse than WW2 new study warns

THE final UK coronavirus death toll could be worse than WW2 with almost 700,000 fatalities over five years, a new study warns.

It is based on projected death rates linked to the virus, together with the economic impact of social distancing or lockdown and that of previous recessions.paper He adds: "The challenge for the UK Government will be to manage its interventions so that the recession that is now inevitable is not significantly worse than that following the 2007–9 financial crash."

"The policy of coming out of lockdown gradually, over five years - which will be necessary if we are to keep the infection rate close to or below one - will reduce the toll on life from the coronavirus but incur a far greater loss of life through the impoverishment of the nation. The net loss of life is likely to be of the order of 675,000 lives. This is higher than over the six years of the Second World War."I think we can more or less justify a lockdown of two months based on the ill effects to the economy, but three months is too long.

The UK Press have been complicit in spreading fear since day one .It's all about to get even more 'shocking' ..Fear is the only tool they have .And people are seeing through the cocked figures more and more the 'R' number is way off owing to criteria used to complete Death Certs

The Sun continues to push panic, but glancing at the comments under the article, I'm pleasantly reassured by the Sun readers' savvy. Many aren't misled by the ridiculous headline and forecast.

I had not read yet anywhere that you have employed the services of Neil Ferguson and done some wicked modeling in C++ or some other ancient code

Bollocks. Sweden nearly out of it with a death rate of 0.03-0.04%. Why do they always interview these doomsayers that are clearly talking nonsense. The MSM should all get heavy fines after this. Their scaremongering & misinformation is disgusting.

😂😂 behave yourself

Don't think so ......

Only if NeilFerguson does the maths.

Anything is possible when you’re fudging death certificates and statistics. Errrr body dying from CHINA Flu🙌🏻

* sky’s favourites word could

Yes it will be due to your papers attitude of economy before life. re your piece by Trevor Kavanagh telling us all to go out !mixedmessages

This is daft. It's clear that early claims of 500k were grossly exaggerated so why give this obvious nonsense air time?

Everyone 'could' die....but they won't....🤷‍♂️

70,000,000+ people died in ww2, are you saying we are all going to die?

Spoiler alert: it won't be.

What a load of rubbish

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