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Also reported on Newsnight that the Department for Health changed the way the death stats are compiled so the figures now require family consent to be included, so todays total is just for deaths today but lags as it captures some they only just consent for but also excludes some
This is really worrying - it means we simply can't trust the figures. Or will they release the true figure a few days later?
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Why is family consent needed to gather an anonymous statistic like that?
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Presumably they have the true numbers for the people actually running the modelling and response though - though you're right, it'll mean they can't be held to account given that they're underpublishing the figures.
It is odd - and it's a requirement that they'll have to drop as simply getting permission for increasing numbers of deaths will become impossible due to scale.
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This is really worrying
I totally agree.
Is the UK (unlike other afflicted counties) still not releasing hospital data (numbers in ITC beds etc)? I heard journalists raise this concern last week.
SwissChap
christianSpaceman
miro_o
Also reported on Newsnight that the Department for Health changed the way the death stats are compiled so the figures now require family consent to be included, so todays total is just for deaths today but lags as it captures some they only just consent for but also excludes some