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Bit of a misleading headline, as the 50,000 excess deaths are almost certainly not all caused by SARS-CoV-2. Nowhere in the headline or the article is that clai
by hyko 6y ago
Bit of a misleading headline, as the 50,000 excess deaths are almost certainly not all caused by SARS-CoV-2. Nowhere in the headline or the article is that claim made.
- lostlogin 6y agoThe article makes it pretty clear that the majority are due to covid. > About three-quarters of this excess can be accounted for by deaths that mention Covid-19 on the death certificate - that total was just over 36,000. The remaining 14,000 are up for debate, and even if they didn’t have covid it isn’t simple. If someone dies because they can’t get treated due to healthcare systems breaking due to covid, is covid the cause of death?
- hyko 6y agoThat’s not quite accurate - the ONS data does not attempt to attribute COVID-19 causality in that way; death certificates that mention COVID-19 are not quite the same thing as deaths we know were caused by COVID-19. To balance that somewhat there are probably missed cases hiding in the other 14,000 excess deaths as well, as you say. The NHS is open to treat all emergency patients, so in theory there should be no excess deaths due to the healthcare system breaking; however, it may be the case that people have avoided treatment due to not wanting to burden the system, or out of the fear of contracting SARS-CoV-2.