With the adoption of this new method, the United Kingdom boasts a balance sheet of less than 5300 dead compared to the previous.
The United Kingdom has changed Wednesday, his way of counting the deaths due to the outbreak of new coronavirus – not taking now into account only those that occurred within 28 days after a positive test – and claims that according to this new method a balance sheet of less than 5300 dead compared to the previous. The methodology to identify deaths due to the epidemic in the province of England “was the subject of a review by independent researchers” and the authorities health england (PHE), explained the ministry of Health in a press release.
“from today”, PHE will be in line on the health services of the three other british provinces and will publish daily the number of people who died of the Covid-19 in “the 28 days after you have been tested positive in the laboratory”, stated the ministry of Health, stating that 88% of deaths have already been saved by PHE had taken place during this period.
“Over-exaggeration “of death”
so far, its balance sheet daily taking into account all the deaths of people who had been tested positive to the new coronavirus, with no time limit. This change of method occurs as a result of the criticism voiced by a study from the University of Oxford, entitled “Why no one can ever heal the Covid-19 in England – a statistical anomaly”.
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“A patient who has been tested positive, but has been attended with success, would be counted as a death of the Covid, even if he has had a heart attack or be crushed by a bus three months later”, denounced the study published in mid-July, which sought to “repair the damage to the statistical error leading to an over-exaggeration of the deaths associated with Covid”.
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With the adoption of the new method, the ministry of Health says that “the total number of patients who died in the United Kingdom within 28 days after a positive test at Covid-19 was Wednesday 41 329 people,” against the 46 706 dead, previously announced by the health authorities.
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“The way we were counting the deaths of people with Covid-19 had been chosen at the origin to avoid under-estimating the deaths caused by the virus in the early stages of the epidemic,” said professor John Newton, PHE, arguing that the new method will raise “crucial information on the recent trends and the overall mortality”. Even with this new count, the United Kingdom remains the European country with the most deaths due to the epidemic, far ahead of Italy and its 35 225 deaths.
