Prof Karol Sikora: Covid-19 death toll may be less than half of what has been recorded

Prof Karol Sikora: Covid-19 death toll may be less than half of what has been recorded:

• In conversation with The Telegraph's Planet Normal podcast, oncologist says medics can too easily put Covid on death certificates

"The Covid-19 death toll may be less than half of what has been recorded because many victims of the pandemic would have died soon anyway, one of Britain's leading medics has said.

Professor Karol Sikora, a senior oncologist who has built a huge Twitter following for his positive takes on the virus crisis, said doctors were sometimes too eager to put Covid-19 on death certificates.
Prof Sikora said the virus would be mentioned on death certificates when there was "any hint" that it could have been the cause, without proof, as well as retrospectively over the phone.

This was in contrast to Germany, where a death can only be recorded as being caused by Covid-19 when the clinical team involved in the end-of-life care certifies that is what they believe happened...
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