Tim of the Oak
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I know it's the Mail but they're going to change Covid-19 death reporting to be like Scotland and NI such that only folks who die within a month of a positive test get added to the death stats, with around 4000 removed from the total.
https://mol.im/a/8599213
Otherwise anybody who ever had a +ve test will eventually die of Covid-19. Of course the numbers will simply move to the excess death total (currently -ve since the start of July). But its the right thing to do.
Hopefully, this change will restore confidence in the published figures. The inconsistencies have been used by activists to undermine the threat of Covid on social media.