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The NHS have told HM Treasury they need £10bn.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jul/04/nhs-chiefs-in-standoff-with-treasury-over-emergency-10bn
Unreal that someone testing positive for covid, then recovers then gets hit by the proverbial bus and dies.. it records as a covid death. Complete madness. Completely different to how many other countries report.
Just an example of the shambolic organisation of our health services thanks to Lansley and the rest of his chums in the Tory party.
I only hope nobody attempts to spin it to try and show that things aren’t as bad as thought in England. The excess deaths data shows that we’ve had a terrible outcome from the first wave. We need to have accurate and clear data to keep track of exactly what is going on out there as regards the number of infections and deaths so a second wave of infections can hopefully be suppressed.
Andrew – more unreal that every excess death over the 5 year average that has happened since the pandemic started is NOT accepted as the figure for the Corona Virus fatalities instead of some arbitrary ‘Covid’ death, isn’t it?
Typical – the government more interested to use resources to make it “look good” rather than address real issues.
In round numbers, I think there have been 300,000 positive tests and, if this group is a random cross section of society, we would expect about about 1,000 of them to die of “other causes” since the COVID crisis started. This is certainly an over-estimate since testing was not all done at the start of the process… it is very back loaded. So, we are looking at adjusting the numbers by a few hundred. This adjustment is small compared to the underestimate of COVID deaths that is almost certainly ocurring which we observe in the difference between “COVID deaths” and excess deaths more generally (about 20,000).
Sorry, but this is a deliberate attempt to muddy the waters around number of deaths and create a fictional narrative that makes the Government look good. The dead deserve better.
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Well, let me see now – if they gave it £10 billion, it would make the NHS look as if it was doing a good job?
Not the best of things to do when you want to hand it over to US ‘Health Care’ sector as you manufacture consent to further privatise it!!