- Re: ONS total weekly deaths England & Wales to week ending 10th April 2020 Archived Message
Posted by flash
on April 21, 2020, 10:46 am, in reply to "Re: ONS total weekly deaths England & Wales to week ending 10th April 2020"
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Thanks SB. Hearing things like that GP's account is why I think it's best to simply look at the total death figures. It seems that there is the potential for manipulation re: what counts as a Covid-19 death, but (I hope) that the ONS total death figures would be harder to interfere with. I know that just lookig at total deaths means that the excess deaths can't be directly attributable to Covid-19, and that side-effects of the lockdown (e.g. neglected vulnerable people, reluctance to use A&E, suicide) will also contribute. But if the lockdown side-effects were a big factor at this stage, you'd expect to see a similar trend over England & Wales as you do in just London, but the London figures are so much starker and the difference is that the virus took hold there earlier. |