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NHS England have released the latest figure for reported deaths in hospitals in England – an additional 711 deaths since yesterday.
Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Jason Oke, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, said:
“Today’s reported figure is 711 deaths in hospitals in England. These deaths are distributed back to the 11th of March.
“There are deaths reported for 35 different dates that are from outside the uncertainty region of the revised upward zone.
“Of the 711, deaths 486 (68%) occurred in the last 7 days (in the uncertainty zone), and 225 (32%) deaths occurred between the 11th March and the 17th April.
“This is the second day we have seen an increase in the number of deaths reported that occurred over a week ago, the majority of which occurred over 2 weeks ago.
See: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-death-data-in-england-update-25th-april/
“The 486 deaths reported today that occurred in the last week are consistent with a trend going down and the peak day of deaths of the 8th of April.”
Please note the above link is an Excel spreadsheet from NHS England.
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