Death rates are complicated; PHE rate includes anybody who ever had a positive test whilst Scotland and Wales use a 28 day cut-off.
"The oddity was revealed in a paper by Yoon K Loke and Carl Heneghan of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University, called “Why no one can ever recover from Covid-19 in England – a statistical anomaly”
Death rates are complicated; PHE rate includes anybody who ever had a positive test whilst Scotland and Wales use a 28 day cut-off.
"The oddity was revealed in a paper by Yoon K Loke and Carl Heneghan of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University, called “Why no one can ever recover from Covid-19 in England – a statistical anomaly”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/17/matt-hancock-calls-urgent-inquiry-phe-covid-19-death-figures