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A statistical tweak has just cut England's Covid death toll by 5,000

13 August 2020

4:47 AM

13 August 2020

4:47 AM

Public Health England has changed its definition of deaths. The new definition is now death in a person with a laboratory-confirmed positive Covid-19 test and died within (equal to or less than) 28 days of the first positive specimen date will now be reported. The new days (here) means England has had 36,695 deaths using this definition as opposed to the previous reported 42,072 – a difference of 5,377. Here’s

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Dr Jason Oke is a Senior Statistician at Oxford's Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. Carl Heneghan is Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and Director of Studies for the Evidence-Based Health Care Programmes at Oxford


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