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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
It does, yes. We measure the number of deaths caused by coronavirus as anyone who dies within 28 days of a Covid test. Which other countries do that?
We record all deaths from Covid, others do not.
And so on. If we are going to compare our figures with those of other countries, it must be on a like-for-like basis otherwise they are practically worthless.
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That is not the basis for the ONS measurement of deaths due to COVID.
The ONS state
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Weekly death figures provide provisional counts of the number of deaths registered in England and Wales for which data are available, and the number of deaths for which the underlying cause was coded to respiratory diseases as defined in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems Tenth Revision (ICD-10).
We use the term “due to" a cause of death (e.g COVID-19) when referring only to deaths with that underlying (main) cause of death. We use the term “involving" when referring to all deaths that had the cause mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, whether as an underlying cause or not.
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https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=%2fp...ek3820211.xlsx
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