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Originally Posted by nffc
Chris, let us not also not forget that the official metric is still "death within 28 days of a positive test".
So anyone who dies, but has tested positive for covid in the preceding 28 days, counts as this. Even if their covid illness was mild or asymptomatic, and irrespective of how they have actually died.
It isn't surprising that with 100k+ positive tests a day for the last 2-3 weeks we're now seeing an increase in "deaths" but how many of those deaths were caused by covid?
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Given how few deaths are being recorded off the back of the whopping omicron infection wave, I’d say that’s a moot point. Whether because of vaccines, a mutation making omicron less dangerous, natural immunity or a combination of the above, it is now abundantly clear that the risk to life from omicron covid is minimal.
The public health messaging won’t go big on that because its transmissibility creates serious resource issues for the NHS, but in the long run that’s a political question, not a public health crisis.