Making sense of the NZ covid death statistics
Today, one report headlines “more than 1k deaths” and points out that 1017 people died with Covid. 16 minutes earlier, the colleague reports “close to 450 Kiwis died from it”. That report goes on to say 447 had it as an underlying cause of death (COD), for 231 it was contributing to the COD, and 161 had a COD unrelated to Covid. 136 still need to be classified. So, based on the the earlier published report, (447 + 231) 678…