Jamie Jenkins

Jamie Jenkins is the former head of health analysis at the Office for National Statistics

Covid deaths – direct and indirect – will now be over 45,000

From our UK edition

This week, the government has published a better measure of Covid-19 deaths by widening it out from hospital deaths to all settings. But what about those who have died without having had a test? Does the ‘improved’ estimate go far enough?  I think the simple answer is no. The mortality data is rising at a rate that