However, the important detail here is being lost: Going by the current NHS rules, despite the hospital officially saying it was not his cause of death, this boy is
How many more people fit that profile? We will never know.
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Italy, Germany, the United States, Northern Ireland and England.
That's five different governments, across four countries, all essentially saying it's OK to just assume a patient died of Covid19, and then add that to the official statistics.
Is that really responsible practice during a potential pandemic?
Are any other countries doing the same?
To what extent can we trust any official death statistics at all, at this point?
As Dr Lee points out, Covid19 is not a disease that presents with a unique or even rare collection of symptoms. The range of severity and type of presentation is in line with literally dozens of extremely common respiratory infections.
You cannot see "fever" and "cough" and then diagnose "probable covid19" with even the slightest chance of accuracy.
This has become one of those nuggets of information we all know by heart, but between 290000 and 650000 people die of flu, or "flu like illness", every year. If just 10% of those cases are incorrectly assumed to be "probable" coronavirus infections, then the fatality numbers are totally useless.
At a time when good, reliable information is key to saving lives and preventing mass-panic, global governments are pursuing policies which make it near-impossible to collect that data, whilst stoking public fear.
Due to these policies, the simple fact is
It's time we started asking why.
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