Anonymous ID: d073d3 July 18, 2020, 12:05 p.m. No.10001716   🗄️.is 🔗kun

UK halts daily Covid-19 death updates over possible ‘distortions’ of daily mortality rate

 

18 Jul, 2020 11:48

 

The British government has put on hold releasing daily updates on the number of coronavirus fatalities, after scientists noticed serious oddities in the way Public Health England counts the overall death toll.

The announcement comes shortly after Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Public Health England to urgently review its methodology of calculating Covid-19 death figures.

 

“Currently, the daily deaths measure counts all people who have tested positive for coronavirus and since died, with no cut-off between time of testing and date of death,” reads a short message on the UK government’s website.

 

https://www.rt.com/uk/495166-uk-halts-covid-death-update/

Anonymous ID: d073d3 July 18, 2020, 12:08 p.m. No.10001736   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1857 >>2176 >>2233 >>2269

UK health minister calls for ‘urgent review’ after scientists expose ‘over-exaggeration’ of Covid-19 death toll

 

17 Jul, 2020

 

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock has ordered an “urgent review” into how Public Health England (PHE) calculates coronavirus death figures. It comes after two UK-based scientists highlighted the serious flaw in PHE’s statistics.

Hancock called for an investigation on Friday after confirmation that Covid-19 fatality figures for England include people who tested positive for the deadly virus months before they died. However, in other UK nations such as Scotland and Northern Ireland, they only include deaths in their daily count if someone died within 28 days of testing positive for the disease.

 

https://www.rt.com/uk/495047-review-covid19-death-toll/

Anonymous ID: d073d3 July 18, 2020, 12:27 p.m. No.10001880   🗄️.is 🔗kun

==Rep. John Lewis, iconic civil rights leader, dead at 80

Longtime congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis has passed away at the age of 80 after a months-long battle with cancer, his family announced.==

Jul 18, 2020 07:41

 

https://www.rt.com/usa/495145-john-lewis-death-civil-rights/