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dubtap

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

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Howard in reply to @dubtap

In England, we count all those that have died who had a positive COVID-19 test at any point, to ensure our data is as complete as possible.

On the face of it that seems completely bonkers

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JWestland in reply to @Howard

It is not really ideal but how far off ideal isn't clear either. I suppose somebody somewhere is re-running the England stats with 28 days (if the data is finegrained enough) to work out how far out it is.

I wish newspapers would go into that sort of detail :)

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