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Comparing different approaches to Covid-19 containment | 56 comments (56 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Testing per capita (4.00 / 4)
The ONS stats show an 8,000 extra "allegedly unexplained" deaths over the usual average for the week ending 10th April - which makes a running total of around 15,000 deaths by the end of that week, which again is about half the number of official in-hospital tested NHS deaths.

So the total by that death is already around 30k. And the number of "unexplained" deaths has been slightly-more-than-doubling each week.

If that continues there will be an extra 16,000 "unexplained" deaths by April 17th, putting the total over 60k.

The ONS are investigating the discrepancy, but apparently the inquiry could take... years. Because it includes some people who would normally go to a doctor/hospital but didn't.

I would guess that's not a very big number compared to "unexplained" Covid deaths, but I'm not working for the ONS.

The FT is a little more generous: Coronavirus death toll in UK twice as high as official figure

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Apr 22nd, 2020 at 10:25:16 AM EST
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