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Covid-19: Relatively high death rates could be due to demographic factors, suggests Public Health Cornwall

Covid-19: Relatively high death rates could be due to demographic factors, suggests Public Health Cornwall

Posted By theboss on 9th April 2020

By Graham Smith The unusually high Covid-19 death rates in Cornwall might be due to the county’s elderly population, Public Health Cornwall has suggested. Cornwall Reports has been asking health…

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