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It's even worse than that. Those numbers are for deaths "with" COVID, not "of COVID". At one point, the UK was recording any death where the person had a positi
by irthomasthomas 3y ago
It's even worse than that. Those numbers are for deaths "with" COVID, not "of COVID". At one point, the UK was recording any death where the person had a positive COVID test at any time prior. Cancer victims and car accidents where recorded as COVID deaths. So, the odds of dying after catching COVID where highly exaggerated.
- Reason077 3y ago> "At one point, the UK was recording any death where the person had a positive COVID test at any time prior." Not entirely true. The UK definition was death _within 28 days_ of the first lab confirmed, positive Covid test. Not "any time prior".
- irthomasthomas 3y agoI said "at one point". E.g. from August 2020: In England, a new weekly set of figures will also be published, showing the number of deaths that occur within 60 days of a positive test. Deaths that occur after 60 days will also be added to this figure if COVID-19 appears on the death certificate. This will provide an additional measure of the impact of the disease over time. This follows concerns raised by academics from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine about the original measure, which counted anyone who had ever tested positive as a COVID-associated death. They called for the introduction of a 21-day measure in order to accurately assess the impact of the virus on mortality rates https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-uk-wide-methodology-agreed-to-record-covid-19-deaths https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-uk-wide-methodology-a...
- SomeRndName11 3y ago[flagged]