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Originally Posted by tweeked
What is with UK's figures - Nearly a month of averaging 1000 cases per day but averaging less than 10 deaths per day???? Do bad teeth protect against the virus or something?
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No, they decided they would ignore the WHO directives on how to classify COVID19 deaths a few weeks back and are instead using their own set of rules which clearly are not producing expected results and they also went back and adjusted the previous months figures as well I suspect they are only counting those with no identifiable co-morbidities as some of the 'fringe' posters in this thread have suggested.
Unfortunately, if everyone isn't reading from the same hymn sheet then we are never going to understand the real impact this is having.
In the case of the UK, it always looked that their 12-14%+ CMR was too high compared to similar countries and you can't even blame low testing as they have tested about a third of the adult population but they are now going too far the other way.
Sensibly, you'd apply the 2-3% that seems to be the norm in most Western countries with reasonable health care systems so the last month worth of cases (34,788) should have resulted in something like 700-1,000 deaths and not the 319 reported.