LONDON: Britain ordered an urgent review Friday into how coronavirus deaths are counted after a study suggested health authorities are overestimating ...
In this file photo taken on June 15, 2020 Commuters wearing face masks walk through the ticket barriers at Waterloo Station in London on June 15, 2020 after new rules make wearing face coverings on public transport compulsory while the UK further eases its coronavirus lockdown. — AFP: Britain ordered an urgent review Friday into how coronavirus deaths are counted after a study suggested health authorities are overestimating the toll by counting people who died long after recovering.
But an article for Oxford University’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine revealed a “statistical flaw” in the way data is gathered by the public health agency in England. “A patient who has tested positive, but successfully treated and discharged from hospital, will still be counted as a COVID death even if they had a heart attack or were run over by a bus three months later,“ they wrote.
Under this approach, “no one with COVID in England is allowed to ever recover from their illness”, the article said -- and the ultimate death toll will include every one of the 292,000 people who has had the virus.
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