Thousands of England's coronavirus deaths will reportedly be wiped from official records.
New measures could see the country's death toll reduced by 10% after scientists raised the alarm about serious "flaws" in how it was being calculated.Up until now, Public Health England (PHE) had been including anyone who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and later died as a Covid-19 death — even if they had recovered and died of something unrelated.This means that according to the official numbers, no one would ever recover from the virus, and all 265,000 confirmed cases in England would eventually be added to the toll, even though most will recover.
Understanding the absurdity of these counts?
Health Secretary Matt Hancock is about to intervene and change the process to bring England's toll more in line with the rest of the UK, The Sun reports.Deaths in Scotland and Northern Ireland are only counted as Covid-related if it happens within 28 days of a positive test, and England will reportedly adopt this approach as well.It's understood a second weekly toll measure will also be established, which records the deaths of coronavirus patients within 60 days of a positive test.Hancock is expected to officially announce the new procedure by the end of this week.It could see England's official coronavirus death toll of 41,686 slashed by approximately 10%, which would take it down to 37,518.Professor Carl Heneghan, from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University, says the difference in counting methods explains why England is still seeing a high Covid-19 death toll."There is no point attributing deaths to Covid 28 days after infection," he told The Sun."All it does is muddy the water. While deaths are falling in Scotland, PHE data suggests matters are worse in England."But if it's someone who picked up the virus in a care home in March and recovered, and last week died of a heart attack, what does that actually tell us?"He applauded the Government's pending change to the "confusing" policy.
We are desperately in need of this clarity. Hopefully it will come to every other nation! And many in the so called "alt media"
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