What’s really going on with Covid deaths data?
A bigger proportion of deaths recorded in the daily data are people who died with Covid, rather than from it. …
But at the moment you might expect to see, very roughly, about 55 of these “coincidental” Covid deaths a day, based on the roughly 2,000 people who die each day in the winter months – and the nearly 6% of people in the UK who have tested positive in the past four weeks (mostly young people at lower risk of dying).