Last week, the Therapeutic Goods Administration announced Australia’s second death likely caused by blood clotting from the AstraZeneca vaccine. This took the total reports of cases of the rare and severe blood clotting disorder TTS following the AZ vaccine to 48. But to be attributed to vaccines, the TGA-appointed expert group must determine there is a link. So why haven’t Australian health authorities followed the same careful distinction between dying from and with Covid?  

On 10 June, Britain’s National Health Service directed hospitals to change how they record Covid, henceforth differentiating between those seeking treatment for another illness and those actually sick with Covid symptoms.