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I know Monday's numbers are generally lower due to the reporting delays over the weekend but the death numbers are really falling.
17 today (which will climb a bit obviously, but still, that's the lowest that's been reported on a day for a long long time).
I'm starting to wonder about this. The definition of a COVID death of one within 28 days of a positive test was criticised by people saying that it included random deaths that were not due to COVID, but also people that slipped in the shower etc. and we didn't know the S/N ratio.
As a metric, this definition made sense to me when the daily deaths were 1000+, and we now know that the "noise" is no more than 30 a day given where we are. But I also think we must be very close to the point where the stats are more noise than signal. Does anyone know any way of finding out numbers of deaths where COVID is given as "cause of death" rather than death within 28 days of +ve test?
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I know Monday's numbers are generally lower due to the reporting delays over the weekend but the death numbers are really falling.
17 today (which will climb a bit obviously, but still, that's the lowest that's been reported on a day for a long long time).
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/