A data scientist examines the Coronavirus pandemic with a personal perspective

In recent months I have been writing posts about the Coronavirus pandemic because it is one topic that is on everybody’s minds. Being in lock down has been a very huge inconvenience on people, but it has been necessary to save lives. There are many people who complain about having to be in lockdown, saying the people who the virus mainly affects are the elderly and individuals with weakened immune systems. I have found out through both professional and personal channels that this simply is not true. I think, therefore, it is a good time to revisit the Coronovirus with respect to both the US and the UK. For reference, my recent post on a comparison between the US and UK Coronavirus statistics can be found here:- https://medium.com/codex/a-data-scientist-compares-the-uk-and-us-coronavirus-statistics-5dae910afb6a

My most recent post comparing the US and the UK Coronavirus statistics gives the code for the analysis, which I am not going to duplicate in this post, so please refer to that post if you desire the entire code.

The UK government has opened the schools, saying that children do not transmit the virus. To begin with, I found out from a very reliable source about a child who died from the virus in A&E, so the presumption that children do not transmit the virus is totally untrue. I…