Covid-19: 80,000 deaths, you say? No: 95,000
Disinformation: the UK’s Tory government wants us to think there have not been as many deaths related to Covid-19 as is in fact the case. The virus is connected with nearly 100,000 deaths now – almost one-quarter more than the official figure suggests.
The official Covid-19 death toll passed 80,000 on Saturday (January 9) – and that is genuine cause for desolation:
On Christmas Day, the official UK coronavirus death toll passed 70,000. Today, it has passed 80,000. 10,000 lives lost in just over two weeks. A truly horrifying statistic. Please take this lockdown seriously, we are all responsible for helping to bring this under control
— Jane Merrick (@janemerrick23) January 9, 2021
But of course the official figure does not include many Covid-related deaths, as Professor Kailash Chand makes clear:
Figures published by the UK's statistics agencies for deaths where Covid-19 has been mentioned on the death certificate,with additional data on deaths that have occurred in recent days,show there have now been 95,000deaths involving Covid-19 in UK.
"STAY HOME TO HELP US HELP YOU"— Prof Kailash Chand OBE FRCGP (@KailashChandOBE) January 10, 2021
We are a lot closer to the landmark failure represented by 100,000 deaths than the UK government wants anybody to think.
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This is how Johnston and his cronies try to make the English NHS look better than those of the devolved governments. They only count people where the actual cause of death is down to covid-19, whereas in Scotland (I don’t know about Wales of NI), we count every death that has covid-19 mentioned on the death certificate, even if not the primary cause of death. They are experts at skewing figures, particularly when they continually refer to UK figures to hide how bad the English ones are.