I suspect every elderly person who died of a heart attack, regardless of the circumstances, makes up a chunk of that 48,000.
“I suspect every elderly person who died of a heart attack, regardless of the circumstances, makes up a chunk of that 48,000.”
Exactly,they tweak the figures.
They have been doing it with smoking related deaths for YEARS.
If someone dies of heart disease at age 80 and had smoked for 20 years back in the 50s/60s it would be considered a smoking related death.
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It’s more likely that the NHS is killing them, than the cold.