BREAKING: Matt Hancock calling urgent review into ‘over exaggerated’ coronavirus death toll
People who die of natural causes but who have tested positive for coronavirus previously are being counted in the Covid death tollhas reportedly called for an urgent review into the way Public Health England counts coronavirus deaths.
Dr Yoon Loke, a pharmacologist at the University of East Anglia, wrote in a blog post on Thursday night: ‘It seems that PHE regularly looks for people on the NHS database who have ever tested positive, and simply checks to see if they are still alive or not.
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