‘Worst-Case’ UK Winter Could See 120,000 COVID Deaths in Second Wave

‘Worst-Case’ UK Winter Could See 120,000 COVID Deaths in Second Wave
General view inside NHS Nightingale Hospital Birmingham, built in the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), in Birmingham, Britain, on April 16, 2020. Jacob King/Reuters
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LONDON—Britain faces a potentially more deadly second wave of COVID-19 in the coming winter that could kill up to 120,000 people over nine months in a worst-case scenario, health experts said on Tuesday.

With COVID-19 more likely to spread in winter as people spend more time together in enclosed spaces, a second wave of the pandemic “could be more serious than the one we’ve just been through,” said Stephen Holgate, a professor and co-lead author of a report by Britain’s Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS).