Public Health England's exaggerated death statistics are a scandal that has fed fear

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Public Health England's exaggerated death statistics are a scandal that has fed fear
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'It is astonishing: under these terms, a person who tested positive a few months ago but then gets hit by a bus this week would be recorded as a Covid death' writes matthewlesh

Has Public Health England been exaggerating the Covid-19 daily death statistics? It appears that PHE compiles “out of hospital” deaths by searching the NHS database for whether that person ever tested positive. It then apparently fails to consider how long ago that person tested positive or their actual cause of death.

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