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Matt Hancock orders urgent review into way Public Health England counts Covid-19 deaths
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mirror.co.ukHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has called for an urgent review into the way Public Health England counts coronavirus deaths.
Mr Hancock ordered the review after researchers criticised "statistical flaws" in the way deaths from Covid-19 are reported across England.
In a blog entitled "Why no-one can ever recover from Covid-19 in England - a statistical anomaly", Professors Yoon Loke, from the University of East Anglia, and Carl Heneghan, from the University of Oxford, said more robust data is needed.
They argue that PHE looks at whether a person has ever tested positive and whether they are still alive at a later date. This means anyone who has ever tested positive for Covid-19 and then dies is included in the death figures, even if they
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