(04-04-2022, 01:51 PM)king1 Wrote: I do agree with you that car accident and murder deaths shouldn't be included if they happen to have covid. Quite clear what the cause of death is in these cases...Car accidents can be caused by all sorts of factors including heart attack, diabetic coma and stroke and these can be linked to Covid. The accident is the result of these events.
I think the murder victim aspect is a red herring - the figures are too small to be significant. "Reported murders have been very stable since 2001, averaging 43.2 a year up to 2015." So that's hardly enough to distort the basic data. If the WHO includes them then so should we.