By Ben Kerrigan-
The Daily Mail is today praised for a thorough report revealing that a large percentage of those who have died from Covid-19 were suffered from at least one serious pre-existing condition, the proportion being at 95%. This praise is not an endorsement for the Daily Mail, but an acknowledgment of its competent level of journalism in its effective assessment of the ONS. The revelation is not much different from the general knowledge of the past, except that this time it states that the underlying issues are serious.
The general belief that the coronavirus was triggering the death of those with underlying issues , changes if it is determined that those underlying issues were already very serious. How serious their underlying illness is determines how serious the effect of COVID-19 is on those patients. On the scale of Covid-19 deaths on the elderly, it revealed that the average death rate in the over-75s was significantly lower this year than it was last October – 6,901.7 per 100,000 people, compared with 7141.7 for last year.
The Uk publication revealed a series of inaccuracies and falsehoods peddled by British government scientists. ne of those revelations were that over half of hospital beds are not as full as stated by scientific advisers of the British government.
The Eye Of Media.Com has been calling for the government to release full details of the underlying issues associated with recent COVID-19 deaths, and the ONS are thankfully doing a bit of that now.
The Mail’s report last weekend is commended for not just following the conventional narrative of reporting figures without putting an accurate perspective on them as required for a complete picture. Its reporters took time to analyse statistics from recently published ONS figures revealed that 35,806 people who have died from coronavirus make up 95.6 per cent of the total, and had at least one pre-existing serious medical condition. Also, the victims are overwhelmingly the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions.
It also revealed that the warnings used to compel the government to impose a second national lockdown ”simply don’t bear any relation to reality”. It adds that ”During the ‘Halloween horror show’ press conference used by Sir Patrick and Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty to scare the Government into implementing a second lockdown, one of their slides suggested that daily Covid-19 deaths could reach 4,000 a day by December”.
The paper revealed that of the 37,470 Covid-19 deaths recorded by NHS England up to November 18, 53.7 percent were of people aged over 80. In comparison, there have been just 275 deaths (only 0.7 per cent of the total) in people under 40. In fact, there have been just 42 deaths of people aged under 40 without a pre-existing condition. Those who die with pre-existing conditions tend to be suffering from serious, debilitating diseases.
On November 5, the most recent date available, there were actually 1,293 fewer patients in hospital beds than last year’s November average. The paper revealed that Nightingale hospitals (such as Sunderland’s, pictured on its opening day in May) were never more than 1.23 per cent full
The number of occupied critical beds was actually lower than five-year average for 2015-19, they revealed. At the height of the first wave in the spring, the percentage of mechanical ventilation beds in existing NHS hospitals that were used never exceeded 62 per cent, according to a study by University College London.
It also revealed that the number of Covid-19 deaths is significantly lower than the peak in April as the graph above shows. On April 21, for example, there were 1,224 Covid-19 deaths, and a daily average for the week of 838