https://www.bbc.com/news/health-60000391What’s really going on with Covid deaths data?
By Robert Cuffe
Head of statistics
Published14 January
Covid deaths are rising sharply in the UK, but an increasing proportion of these are actually due to something else, BBC analysis suggests.
That's because some people die with Covid rather than from it.
The Omicron wave is driving rising infections, which means more people will catch it and some will get sick.