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| Health department says England counting anyone who died after testing positive for coronavirus as related death |
| 2020-07-19 |
| [Washington Examiner] England is counting anyone who has died there and had a coronavirus test come back positive at any point as a coronavirus death, Public Health England announced Friday. This comes after the British government ordered a review of how daily coronavirus death figures in England are tallied after some claimed that the figures were inflated. "Although it may seem straightforward, there is no WHO agreed method of counting deaths from COVID-19," said Dr. Susan Hopkins, England's public health incident director. "In England, we count all those that have died who had a positive COVID test at any point, to ensure our data is as complete as possible." Hopkins noted that the coronavirus is "a new and emerging infection and there is increasing evidence of long term health problems for those affected." On some days, England has seen more than 100 daily virus-related deaths as opposed to none in the other parts of the United Kingdom, according to the Associated Press. "A patient who has tested positive, but successfully treated and discharged from hospital, will still be counted as a COVID death even if they had a heart attack or were run over by a bus three months later," said Yoon Loke and Carl Heneghan, two leading health professionals in the country, who added that a "statistical flaw" has occurred, leading to an inflated tally by Public Health England. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Would it be fair to assume that 99% of people who die shortly after tested covid positive, die of covid? If one could apply the 60% testing error rule that might be true, with CV as a comorbidity. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-19 10:00 |
| #4 #2 Incidentally. Around here people always mention covid stats inflation - given the number of brave scientists/opinion makers working to expose the "covid hysteria hoax", I'd expect some hard numbers - say X% of all WHO reported numbers? Of course, there is also the Turkmenistan model - where lots of people die from pneumonia, but no Covid - 19 at all. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-19 07:57 |
| #3 Mo, only a fraud would assume that |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-07-19 07:15 |
| #2 Would it be fair to assume that 99% of people who die shortly after tested covid positive, die of covid? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-19 04:01 |
| #1 No sense letting a good crisis go to waste. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-07-19 03:01 |