harvest wrote on Sun Jan 2, 2022 11:09pm:
Hello Aitch, I have read a number of articles about how the official ons data (and other countries data) underestimates the true figure. Here is a link to one of the recent ones I read (does not include the Uk but you will get the gist of the data)
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Hi Harvest,
there is nothing in the Economist article that would suggest the UK is underestimating either covid deaths or excess deaths. In fact it is the opposite, the Economist list UK excess deaths as 148,050 whereas the ONS figures are 149,766. The UK is probably one of the few countries that are reporting higher excess death figures that those given in the Economist article.
Sorry but I cannot see anything to justify your figure of over 200,000 excess deaths in the UK.
Aitch