The UK government recently announced they were halting their daily COVId-19 death toll figures. Why would they do that? It seems their "counting" has bee over-exaggerated. Yes, those number that get use an ammunition by the media to spread fear into everyone, are not reflective of reality.
The Department for Health and Social Care issued a statement last week on July 17 stating how much things are screwed up with respect to counting alleged COVID-19 deaths:
Currently the daily deaths measure counts all people who have tested positive for coronavirus and since died, with no cut-off between time of testing and date of death.
There have been claims that the lack of cut-off may distort the current daily deaths number.
We are therefore pausing the publication of the daily figure while this is resolved.
Wait, what? That's something, isn't it? Anyone who has ever tested positive (allegedly positive since the tests aren't even supposed to be used for diagnostic purposes), and then dies at some point, even months later, is counted as an alleged COVID-19 death. That is nuts!
There have allegedly been over 100 alleged COVID-19 deaths per day in Eangland. Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine has come out with an article to talk about this "statistical anomaly" titled: Why no-one can ever recover from COVID-19 in England – a statistical anomaly.
Some bad data gathering and statistics is to blame, where the correspond deaths with records of people who have tested positive (allegedly) for COVID-19:
“Linking data on confirmed positive cases (identified through testing by NHS and PHE laboratories and commercial partners) to the NHS Demographic Batch Service: when a patient dies, the NHS central register of patients is notified (this is not limited to deaths in hospitals). The list of all lab-confirmed cases is checked against the NHS central register each day, to check if any of the patients have died.”
As the researchers at CEBM note, they don't take into consideration when the person was tested, nor if they were treated and discharged from a hospital:
PHE does not appear to consider how long ago the COVID test result was, nor whether the person has been successfully treated in hospital and discharged to the community. Anyone who has tested COVID positive but subsequently died at a later date of any cause will be included on the PHE COVID death figures.
As the title of the article suggests, according to this process, "no one with COVID in England is allowed to ever recover from their illness."
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.
Yes, that's the big joke about the death counts. As people get tested and live, then die later, they get consumed by the fearful COVID-19 death toll numbers. Old people are more susceptible to be infected, and they also survive. Then they may die later on due to age or other illnesses. But that is a "COVID-19 death" in the UK.
It's at least good that this blunder has been caught. The number should be corrected, I hope. I wonder how many cuts to the death toll that will make?