Thursday, September 8th, 2022, 4:59 pm
NHS Once Again Admits That the Number of Deaths It Gave Was Wrong (More People Had Died Than It Disclosed)
Filed under: It keeps happening (sometimes thousands of ‘missing’ deaths, sometimes less)
Today, after eight days of silence, the portal coronavirus.data.gov.uk was updated. It’s the worst COVID-19 summer so far (in terms of deaths, hospital admissions etc.), but apparently keeping us updated every day isn’t seen as justified by Liz TruSSmp and her party.
Here’s a prominent new notice (top of pages):
September 2022
Log category: data issue
Deaths figures for England include backlog
There is a catch up in reporting of deaths by NHS England following the August bank holiday. Deaths figures by report date on 8 September 2022 include some deaths that would ordinarily have been reported on 31 August 2022.
Deaths by death date are backdated.
Screenshot (as this page will be deleted/wiped in the future):
And then there’s also this:
8 September 2022
Log category:change to metric
Small number of additional deaths added in England
Due to improvements in processing methods, a small number of past deaths have been reallocated to fall within the 28 day interval for defining a death within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test. This has resulted in the addition of 150 deaths between March 2020 and August 2022.
Additional detailsProcess improvements in identifying which specimen date is used to calculate time between a positive test and a death, a small number of past deaths have been reallocated to fall within the 28 day definition and a small number have been allocated to fall outside of the 28 day interval. This has resulted in a net change of adding 150 deaths between March 2020 and August 2022.
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Well, it’s hardly the first time this happens. I’ve lost count of how many times they retroactively added deaths to past days, after graphs had already been rendered based on the smaller figures. Can’t they get the basics right? Like counting death certificates? These are people’s lives!
