How many Covid deaths ? There is a stat being bandied around Twitter and other social Media platforms, 17,371 people dying of Covid. It’s in response to a Freedom of information request Please supply deaths caused solely by covid 19, where covid is the only cause of death listed on the death certificate, broken down by age group and gender between feb 2020 up to and including dec 2021. Please supply the number of autopsies carried out on those where covid was the only cause stated. The request is an interesting one, but the results are not as they seem – anyone with cancer, heart disease, pneumonia or diabetes would be excluded by this FOI request. Someone dieing “with AIDS” would likely have pneumonia and AIDS on their death certificate so a similar FOI request would probably have the number of sole AIDS deaths as a very low number. Spinners of this FOI request are making out that somehow the 17,371 deaths “of” Covid via this FOI request are the only ones that sho...
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