Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
I do think there is merit in being critical of the assumption that all deaths where covid has been found, by testing, should be counted as covid deaths.
The terminology in the PHE report is simply 'excess deaths where covid was mentioned on the death certificate'. So I don't think there's any real attempt to hoodwink the public into thinking covid was the main factor in every death. But where someone with an illness is not terminal, yet they die a couple of weeks after contracting covid, it's reasonable to count that as a covid death. If you write-off all the deaths in care homes, which are now near the 30k mark in the UK, you're still at the 100,000 deaths level. So how many of the 100,000 aren't covid-related?