coronavirus death toll, researches have said. A new study by Edinburgh University revisited work done by Imperial College London which suggested hundreds of thousands of Brits would die if no action was taken to stop the spread of Covid-19.The study considered the impact of school closures on the country's infection rates, and found closures would reduce the spread, but increase the number of Covid-related deaths.Researchers have now taken the study and reassessed it, with Edinburgh University concluding school closures would "result in more overall deaths."Study authors wrote in the BMJ: "In the absence of an effective vaccine for Covid-19, school closures would result in more overall deaths than no school closures."Both studies used a.