On 26/02/2021 15:28, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 26/02/2021 15:26, Jonathan wrote:
On Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 5:02:50 PM UTC, Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article ,
tim... wrote:


"Andrew" wrote in message
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Is this because of social distancing, mask wearing, hand washing,
fear or inability to get to a GP, or something else ?

probably because all the people who actually died of flu were diagnosed
a dying of Covid
The deaths from Covid figures only apply to those who have tested
positive.

Within the last 28 days, even if you were run over

A death certificate will need to include a medical assessment of the
cause of death. Clear cases of Trauma would not usually be recorded as
covid related even if there were a positive diagnosis.

Bu not from those who died of it and never even got tested...it works
both ways

We keep several different sets of stats in this country (PHE keep one
set, and the ONS another).

Some record people who die within number of days of a positive test - so
those will include some who died "with" covid rather than necessarily
from it. However we also keep stats on those who have died where COVID
is mentioned as a contributory cause on the death certificate.

Excess deaths compared to a baseline is yet another way of making an
assessment.

This expands on it quite well:

https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov...vid-19-deaths/

So basically, its complicated.


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Cheers,

John.

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