May 2, 2020

expert reaction to daily figures for reported hospital deaths due to COVID-19 in England

NHS England have released the latest figure for reported deaths in hospitals in England – an additional 370 deaths since yesterday, bringing the total to 20,853.

Prof Carl Heneghan Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and Prof Jason Oke, Senior Statistician at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, said:

See further info and graphs here: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-death-data-in-england-update-2nd-may/

“Today’s reported figure is 370 deaths in hospitals in England. These deaths are distributed back to the 13th of March.

“For comparison: the deaths reported in hospitals in England on the same weekday 1, 2 and 3 weeks ago were:

25th of April:  711 deaths.

18th of April:  784 deaths.

11th of April:  823 deaths.”

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/

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