"Thats a completely speculative number, because it includes deaths at home with CV mentioned on the death certificate. However they were not tested, pre or post death and CV is a suspected complication not the confirmed cause of death."
When my father died last summer, his death certificate listed:
Pneumonia
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic Heart Failure
Frailty
Emphysema was also a contender, but not included on the certificate because it is an industrial disease and would have led to an autopsy - which we didn't want; after all, he was 94. If Covid had been around a year ago, my father would have been, as the press are now shouting, one of the 'lambs to the slaughter'. But 'frailty' is just another word for 'clapped out' and ready to go.
My feelings go out to the nurses and carers at care homes - I have seen 3 trained carers trying to get my dad on to the toilet - I just don't know how they can do it AND practice social distancing. What's more, he wasn't one of those with dementia.
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