The Tolls Are Wrong

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This morning.

UK’s Talk Radio.

“One of the biggest travesties of Covid, not just the sad deaths, has been the use of data…we’ve had made many mistakes.”

Former head of health analysis at the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) Jamie Jenkins speaking to Mike Graham after the  British government was forced to reissue key charts used to justify a second lockdown after admitting projected fatalities were overstated.

Last week, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) statistician John Flanagan calculated that 900 and 1,200 people ‘who would otherwise have been alive’ if Covid hadn’t struck died in Ireland up to the beginning of October.

The Department of Health’s number for the same period is in excess of 1,900 deaths.

Covid Graphs Wrong: Death Toll Will Not Surpass First Wave (telegraph)

Previously: Morbid Curiosity

 

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8 thoughts on “The Tolls Are Wrong

  1. Cian

    Last week, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) statistician John Flanagan calculated that 900 and 1,200 people ‘who would otherwise have been alive’ if Covid hadn’t struck died in Ireland up to the beginning of October.

    The Department of Health’s number for the same period is in excess of 1,900 deaths.

    Apples and Oranges.

    The Department of Health’s number of people that died with Covid for the same period is in excess of 1,900 deaths.

  2. GiggidyGoo

    At this stage, these facts and figures and their presentation are beyond a joke. It’s pure ‘soaps’ at this stage. All vying for fame. Holohan, Varadkar, Harris, Reid, Donnelly. One trying to outdo the other – for what? Political gain (leoks etc.)? To show who’s boss?

    No wonder this Stage 5 ‘lockdown’ isn’t been taken seriously by many. 5km?. Yeah right!

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