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I provided links plotting daily numbers for various countries in my other comment. Just compare

    https://covid.observer/gb/#daily
    https://covid.observer/se/#daily
to eg

    https://covid.observer/it/#daily
    https://covid.observer/de/#daily
There's also the possibility that numbers will essentially stabilize, eg

    https://covid.observer/fr/#daily
    https://covid.observer/es/#daily
We don't know yet which way the UK will go, as the number of active cases is still growing.



And it doesn't strike you that zero people recovered in the UK based on your chart...?


It's the Johns Hopkins University CSSE dataset, and recovered cases are indeed not properly tracked for some countries. But you can just look at the crude numbers of confirmed cases and fatalities to see that the situation in Germany and the UK follow different dynamics (cf this plot[1] of the new confirmed cases, though the difference is of course in part due to the testing rates),

However, from looking at the daily fatality rates, you're right that the UK might indeed be already past the peak as well.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/6YJ6op8.png


All you are measuring with your chart is the late ramp up in testing in the UK. Deaths is a much more reliable indicator.




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