It is revealed that there is no World Health Organisation (WHO) agreed method of counting deaths from Covid-19. England counts everyone who has ever died since testing positive in COVID-19, whatever the real cause. Scotland counts everyone who has died within 28 days after testing positive. If data collected within UK is inconsistent, imagine the diversity worldwide.
England classifies everyone who has died after catching COVID-19 to have died of COVID-19.
UK' Health Secretary Matt Hancock wrote:
“By this PHE definition, no one with COVID in England is allowed to ever recover from their illness.
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.”
In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, someone would have been classified a COVID victim were he/she tested positive within 28 days prior to his/her death, whatever the cause of death. That could have included traffic accident victims.
If data collected within UK is inconsistent between Engliand and other nations, as explained above, imagine the diversity of the statistics collected worldwide. Apparently, there is no World Health Organisation (WHO) agreed method of counting deaths from Covid-19. Is it too much to expect WHO to issue guidelines? A budget of over US$4 trillion is quite substantial, isn't it?
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