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What percent of Covid deaths were directly from Covid?

25 August 2020

9:30 PM

25 August 2020

9:30 PM

Just how many people have died of Covid-19, as opposed to having died with the virus? It is a poignant question, especially after it was revealed that Public Health England had been counting a Covid death as anyone who died after testing positive for the virus, even if they swiftly recovered and went on to die of some other cause, like under a proverbial bus.

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