Communicating COVID-19 statistics

What are the challenges of communicating these numbers?

I gave a presentation to the Social Statistics section of the Royal Statistical Society. The presentation posed the challenges of communicating COVID-19 statistics to the public.

Robert Cuffe (BBC) and John Burn-Murdoch (Financial Times) gave informative presentations after mine. As John says on communication:

It doesn’t matter how high quality, how precise, how methodologically sound your work is if people don’t understand it.