In this video, Dr John Campbell provides an excellent summation of an FOI request answered by the ONS last month, disentangling the statistics of people who have died with Covid and those who died solely because of Covid. (1/4)
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Up to the end of September 2021, the official count of deaths of people with Covid was 137,133. This FOI request would indicate that only 17,371 of those deaths occurred in people with no other underlying causes. (2/4)
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Professor Karol Sikora, former head of the WHO cancer programme, estimates that in the 18 months up to September 2021, England and Wales had 50,000 excess cancer deaths. Potential causes include missed treatment and fear of attending hospital during the pandemic. (3/4)
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Life expectancy in the UK is 79 for men and 82.9 for women. The average age of those who died within 28 days of a positive test is 82.5. So the quality-adjusted years of life lost due to covid is likely to be lower than those lost due to cancers in the same period. (4/4)
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In this video, Dr John Campbell provides an excellent summation of an FOI request answered by the ONS last month, disentangling the statistics of people who have died with Covid and those who died solely because of Covid. (1/4)
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@DavidDavisMP
Know you are used to information being spun to meet the agenda but here is the reality on video - plus Dr JC is making more than most Tories in second jobs with the videos
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@DavidDavisMP
I had issues with every tweet in this thread so I made a short thread of my own in response.
There are factual inaccuracies and misleading statements in this short thread - disappointing from a former Secretary of State
@DavidDavisMP
. Let’s quickly walkthrough them to set the record straight if possible.
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@DavidDavisMP
David, whilst I’m sure you mean well you fundamentally misunderstand how death certification works and how covid steals life from people who had many years to live. Please delete this thread, is dangerous misinformation.
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@DavidDavisMP
You’re aware that Dr Campbell’s doctorate is in nurse education, that he’s not a medical doctor, that he’s not qualified to sign a medical certificate of cause of death and that he demonstrates very clearly in this video that he doesn’t understand what’s involved in doing so?
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@DavidDavisMP
He does not, and given the fact he is not qualified to complete a Death Certificate that is not surprising
Your use of the claim people have died with COVID is embarrassing
If COVID is on a Death Certificate it is a Cause Of Death
There is no WITH on one of these
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@DavidDavisMP
The
@ONS
says this is “highly misleading) and has gone to the trouble to write a specific blog on it.
Slow handclap
@DavidDavisMP
Please remove your “highly misleading” thread and will
@TwitterSupport
ensure it is remove consulting with the
@ONS
first if necessary.
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