Gemily1 wrote on Thu Aug 20, 2020 2:54pm:
This figure of 65000 deaths in the UK from covid-19 where do you get those figures from, last I heard it was rounded down to low 40000s due to the fact that people who had proved positive for covid died later of something else, but was still recorded as dying of covid-19 even when they hadn't. An...
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...y death from this virus is to much.
It's the ONS figure for excess deaths during the period since March. The government figures are all over the show as they keep changing the methodology and of course there's a time lag on the data, which varies between the 4 UK countries.
The ONS figure for excess deaths is the number of deaths recorded above the 5yr average, which is currently 17,000 pa. It is not separated into cause of death, but but Covid-19 is the only abnormality in this period.
Paul