I would expect better than what I see in the numbers, Kit Cat.
UK's recovery rate is 1/10 of the US and 1/5 of Italy's rate, according to the data from worldometers.info.
Maybe it is a problem with the recovery numbers.
“Maybe it is a problem with the recovery numbers.”
“Recovered” is not well defined. Some places keep you until you are virus free for a while, some kick you out after 7 days. I think it’s more of a political definition than a medical one.
One of the biggest impact’s of UK’s socialized medicine is a failure to test in large numbers. Supposedly they are only testing folks in the NHS hospitals.
This is demonstrated by the absurdly high death to positive ratio—which continues to get worse:
Today: 786 deaths, 3,634 tests 22%
Total: 6,159 deaths, 55,242 tests 12%
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries