On 26/02/2021 01:00, alan_m wrote:
On 25/02/2021 22:31, Fredxx wrote:

Hence why excess deaths also became a useful indicator for the spread
of Covid.

Surely excess deaths to measure of covid deaths is only meaningful if
the rest of the NHS was working the same way as in previous years?Â* If
there is a much reduced healthcare for other conditions the figure could
be expected to rise accordingly.

In the early days there was a complaint that not all Covid related
deaths were being recorded from the lack of testing.

Therefore excess deaths over the long term seasonal expectation was a
useful measure of deaths that might be related to Covid.

With greater testing this has become less of an issue, but still useful
to compare where there might otherwise be a number of conventional flu
related deaths.

I think that deaths in coming years may well be increased, from the
recent lack of treatments.