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Matt Hancock orders urgent review of PHE Covid-19 death figures – The Guardian
Move comes after it emerges statistics may include people who died of other causes
The UK health secretary, Matt Hancock, is ordering an urgent review of the daily Covid-19 death statistics produced by Public Health England, after it emerged they may include recovered former sufferers who could have died of other causes.
The oddity was revealed in a paper by Yoon K Loke and Carl Heneghan of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University, called Why no one can ever recover from Covid-19 in England a statistical anomaly.
Their analysis suggests PHE cross-checks th…
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