Wouldn’t it be more useful to see the ‘best case’ aswell - surely The Grauniad should be beyond fueling hysteria and panic?

UK coronavirus crisis ‘to last until spring 2021 and could see 7.9m hospitalised’

”Prof Chris Whitty, the government’s chief medical adviser, has previously described that figure as the worst-case scenario and suggested that the real number would turn out to be less than that. However, the briefing makes clear that four in five of the population “are expected” to contract the virus.