- Re: ONS total weekly deaths England & Wales to week ending 10th April 2020 Archived Message
Posted by Sinister Burt
on April 21, 2020, 10:22 am, in reply to "ONS total weekly deaths England & Wales to week ending 10th April 2020"
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That's better than mine, ta. I also found this tweet via guardian comments that might explain why the ONS says only 15% of extra deaths outside hospital are covid19, while european countries seem to have 40-50% deaths outside hospital: "I am a GP in Ms Coffee's constituency, I am informed by the Local Medical Committee that the Coroner in Suffolk has declared that we cannot put Covid-19 as a cause of death on the Medical Cause of Death Certificate unless it is proven*, as no one outside hospital is tested in Suffolk that puts the care-home death rate at virtually zero. That keeps the UKs death rate satisfyingly low and exonerates the government for inaction, spin and under resourcing of the NHS over the last 10years." |