Here in UK deaths by any cause within 28 days of a positive Covid test is a “Covid death”. So, smoke for 70 years, drink like a fish, eat pies, get a positive Covid test, and then crash your hang-glider into a cliff and that is a Covid death. Even then, in October, Covid was only number 13 in causes of death. Flu was number 7. Take out serious co-morbidities (the underlying causes of death) and the total number of Britons under the age of 45 who have died so far of Covid is 41. Sadly, suicide (which was already at number 1 for cause of death for under 45s) has only increased. I’m not going conspiracy theory, but there is an Abeline Paradox happening here.
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Not at all. There are two figures used and the ‘deaths by any cause with a positive test within 28 days’ is the one used in the daily updates and in all the analysis of lockdown measures, etc. (https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk) There is another figure with a lag of at least a week for ‘deaths where there is any mention of COVID on the death certificate’. This is a bigger number (about 60,000 rather than about 50,000). Average age of death in either method is about the same at 84 years. This is 2 years older than the average age of death without the involvement of Covid. |