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Worst case scenario estimates *Title edited by MNHQ*

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Ladykluck · 12/03/2020 18:36

The chief medical officer said 80% of the population are expected to be infected with 1% mortality so they are expecting around 480,000 to die. Although they stopped short of actually saying that number. Just in case anyone missed it. I’m a doctor and the doctors of Europe are screaming at us to shut the country down and BoJo just told us to stay home for a week and not go on a cruise.

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ClaraMumsnet · 12/03/2020 20:02

Hi all, we're getting a lot of reports about this being scaremongering. We have to agree in regards to the title.

We're not here to fact check but to moderate posts according to our Talk Guidelines, however, this 480,000 seems to refer to this article which is referring to the USA, which has a much bigger population than the UK.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-dr-james-lawler-warning-us-hospitals-infection-a9385031.html

We've edited the title as this thread was getting a huge amount of reports. If we want the discussion here to continue, the title needs to cite where the number has come from and be a bit less inflammatory.

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ClaraMumsnet · 12/03/2020 20:19

@Langbannedforsafeguardingkids It may be, but the OP wasn't clear what country it was referring to - that number in the UK isn't what was reported, this figure is referencing the USA which we wanted to be clear about. If the title is inflammatory or misleading, the thread will continue to get lots of reports, and we don't want to shut down a conversation.

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MichaelMumsnet · 13/03/2020 08:02

Hi all, and apologies for the confusion. We've changed the thread title to 'Worst case scenario estimates'.
And it's worth mentioning that the OP of this thread has left the site.

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