Sir David Spiegelhalter said 959 out of 18million under-50s had died from Covid David Spiegelhalter, a professor of the public understanding of risk, wrote an article last month about the complexities of comparing different countries’ coronavirus mortality rates. How can you protect yourself?

The Government’s method of giving out numbers on Covid-19 deaths and testing is “not the trustworthy communication of statistics”, according to an expert. Healthy under-50s are more likely to die from a car accident or an injury than Covid-19, leading statistician says. The coronavirus death rate was twice as high for men compared to women - 97.5 deaths per 100,000 population versus 46.5 deaths per 100,000. Prof David Spiegelhalter, professor of the public understanding of risk at the University of Cambridge, has called for the same systems for collecting data on deaths to be used across the UK.