@BabaJade
Don't normally comment but feel so strongly about this one. I'm sure people have had flu, just maybe not bad enough to bother medics. But also, people may have died of flu, but if they've had a positive covid test within 28 days of dying, it won't be recorded as flu, it'll be reported as covid, regardless of whether they had been cleared of covid or not. I work in the NHS, my mum a carer and family have had friends die sadly. All of us are aware these cases exist and some are going to court to remove covid from the death certificate as it is inaccurate.
I think doctors are probably pretty competent at differential diagnoses, and would test for flu and covid if there was any doubt, if only to give the appropriate treatment.
I really wish people could tell the difference between the stats that are gathered on covid. There are the PHE figures which give deaths from any cause within 28 days of a positive covid test. That total will include someone who died of another cause who had a positive covid test within 28 days before they died. It also excludes anyone who dies of covid but takes longer than 28 days after their positive test to die. This PHE figure is the one reported daily by the govt as it is quicker to collate.
Then there are the ONS figures that record exactly what is written on each person's death certificates. If someone died of an unrelated condition to covid, and covid played no part in their death, then covid is not recorded on their death certificate even if they had a positive covid test within 28 days before dying. These ONS figures take longer to collate, and are usually at least a week or more behind the current figures. But obviously they are a count of what is actually on death certs rather than the less accurate "within 28 days" PHE total.
If you compare the PHE figure with the ONS data for up to any given week that the ONS figures are available, you can see that the PHE "within 28 days" figure actually underestimates the number of people who have covid on their death certificate.
Regarding the falsification of death certificates by NHS doctors, if you have witnessed this yourself, what percentage of covid deaths do you think they represent? 1%? 0.5%? or a higher figure? Over 100,000 people have covid on their death certificates, if we go with a 1% figure for falsified death certificates, that means that the numbers dying from covid is still over 99,000. As someone who works in the NHS and has seen falsified death certificates, what are the reasons why this is happening? What is motivating doctors to falsify the cause of death wholesale in this way?