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Medical Director Dr. Tony Holohan has produced a new chart that tells a different story about the number of daily deaths in Ireland from COVID 19 to date.
He explained that what the National Public Health Emergency Team reports daily is the number of deaths reported to them on a particular day, rather than the numbers that actually died that day.
He said that it may be a few days or even more before they are notified of any particular death.
The new graph shows the pattern of daily deaths that actually occurred when taking into account the actual time of when the deaths occurred.
This new analysis paints a very different picture from that suggested by the figures published to date.
It shows that daily deaths peaked ten days ago on April 7 with 39 deaths, although the total reported that day was 36.
It also reveals that, generally speaking, for three weeks before April 10, the daily death toll did not represent the reality of how many people actually died each day. But in the last week, the reported daily total has been over-representing the actual number of deaths that occurred, some days by far.
The number of deaths officially reported for Friday, April 17 is 44, the highest so far. But in reality, only 20 of those deaths occurred on Friday. The rest could have been correctly allocated to earlier dates.
The graph showed that the number of daily deaths from COVID-19 in Ireland has actually been cut in half from its peak ten days ago.
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