Experts have a warning for people looking at coronavirus data between countries: Nations have different reporting standards, different approaches to testing and different approaches to tracing cases, which can make such comparisons dangerously misleading.
An online map of global coronavirus cases, compiled by Johns Hopkins University , is, according to the university, being viewed more than 1 billion times every day by people who want to see the figures for themselves. Questions once reserved for epidemiologists are now being discussed over dinner tables and around water coolers across the world.
Tildesley, who specializes in developing mathematical models to simulate the spread of diseases, said people need to be mindful of the bigger picture."The fear is that people may look at their own risk, consider it's low and then not take the measures that are being advised," he said. His advice: Even though the likelihood of any one individual in the UK being infected is very low at the moment, everyone should behave as if they were.
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