UK might stop official Covid death count over claims of 'exaggeration'

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The UK's official COVID-19 daily death count could be scrapped following an investigation into Public Health England's method of counting the toll, The Telegraph newspaper reported.

 

The conclusions of the investigation, which was ordered by Health Secretary Matt Hancock after it emerged officials were "exaggerating" virus deaths, are expected this week, the newspaper said.

 

One recommendation could be to move to a weekly official death toll instead, a government source told the Telegraph.

 

Britain paused its daily update of the death toll last month and the government ordered a review into how Public Health England reports coronavirus deaths, after academics said the daily figures may include people who died of other causes.

 

Academics in a blog post had warned that the way the government health agency calculated the figures was skewed as patients who tested positive for coronavirus, but are successfully treated, will still be counted as dying from the virus "even if they had a heart attack or were run over by a bus three months later".

 

England's death figures vary substantially from day to day due to this reason, the academics had argued.

 

In contrast, the other parts of the United Kingdom do not follow the same approach. There is a cut-off threshold of 28 days in Scotland after a positive test, after which a patient is not automatically considered to have died from the virus.

 

Britain, one of the countries hardest hit by the virus, reported more than 1,000 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday, its highest daily increase since June, taking the total number of cases past 310,000. 

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[dMog]

You mean "over claims they do not voters to know the ACTUAL death toll"

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In my home country Scotland, they have just passed 24 consecutive days with zero Coronavirus deaths.

But there have been a few outbreaks, and the city of Aberdeen has been put into lockdown due to

some pubs flaunting the social distancing and capacity measures ordered by the government and

causing an outbreak there.

Football has returned (behind closed doors, no fans present) and schools are due to return soon.

But it's a delicate situation and all the good work can be undone by the selfish idiots who don't care about

other people's safety.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[dMog]

and one of them selfish idiots is the leader of a very large country with covid numbers doing an imitation of a runaway freight train

[aum]

So, it's 21st Century and we don't still know how to count correctly?

[funkyy]

11 hours ago, dMog said:

and one of them selfish idiots is the leader of a very large country with covid numbers doing an imitation of a runaway freight train

November can't come quick enough. As a non "large country" citizen, just as an observer, that large country has to

change the rules about who can run for President. It has to be people who have a proven track record, and experienced,

background in politics....not just a guy/woman who happens to be a millionaire tv personality. Yes, I know that

previous presidents were wealthy men...but at least they had a background and a track record in holding

a political position. But the resident guy has shown no statesmanship, no communication skills and a complete

lack of grace and intelligence. He's a total embarrassment...thank God he wasn't in charge during the Cold War years.

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Just read that the resident guy wants a permanent  residency at Mount Rushmore.  

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