@divegeester The UK government has stopped publishing (it’s own) deaths data since end of lockdown as it admitted it wasn’t reliable.
It may not be reliable but if the UK is consistent with their criterion for a COVID
death, then you can at least reliably compare one geographical area to another.
-Removed-No. Well, slightly.
The people being infected are younger (at the moment) and they don’t die as often (although they can have other problems due to it) and hospitals have become slightly better at treating the disease (basically blasting vitamin C and steroides into the body).
But if older people start getting infected again, the IC’s will, once again, fill up and more people will die.
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-Removed-What you do (if you want to measure) is compare monthly death rates for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
And compare hospital admittance and IC admittance over the same period.
That way you get a very reasonable indication of what’s going on.
Nr. 1 Marauder did it for the US, I believe.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53780196
Britain has had 26% more deaths in 2020 so far.