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 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/11/prof-karol-sikora-covid-19-death-toll-may-less-half-has-recorded ByJack Hardy <https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/j/jack-hardy/>11 June 2020 • 6:00am [image: Professor Karol Sikora has built up a considerable Twitter following during the virus pandemic] Professor Karol Sikora has built up a considerable Twitter following during the virus pandemic CREDIT: Dominic James The Covid-19 death toll <https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-social-distancing-support-bubble-deaths-cases/> 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. Speaking to The Telegraph's Planet Normal <http://www.playpodca.st/planetnormal> podcast – which you can listen to on the player above – 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. *Click on the link for the rest.* -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. Ways to unsubscribe: 1) send a blank email to [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News From Underground" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/newsfromunderground/CAGxB6W9eA7M6qHctw7s2irF%3DGtdDinjYXZbCy7Nu1T0gcoA24A%40mail.gmail.com.
