For a very interesting read I suggest the article below containing Prof. Carl Heneghan's comments.
Carl Heneghan is the self-styled Director of Evidence Based Medicine. As such, you would would expect him to objectively analyse evidence and draw reasoned conclusions from them.
I don’t know about other diseases, but on Covid he does the exact opposite. He has a pre-conceived opinion which he then searches for evidence to support, finding reasons to dismiss any evidence which doesn’t support his views.
He has a large social media following which appears to mainly consist of conspiracy theorists. Fellow scientists on his social media feed are, in the main, highly critical of his postings.
This week, he put his name to a report that claimed that death certificate reports of Covid-related deaths were vastly inflated. This was based on two cases he analysed, one of which was a patient recovering from a Road Traffic Accident and the second a patient recovering from a heart attack. In both cases, the patients acquired Covid whilst in hospital and subsequently died.
Heneghan claims that this shows that people are being reported as dying from Covid when they in fact died from other causes. However, there is no evidence to support this claim, even from the two cases cited, as I’m sure we’re all aware of people who’ve had either an RTA or a heart attack and then recovered in hospital. The only evidence regarding their cause of death is the death certificate, completed by the attending doctors, which states it was Covid. Heneghan chooses to ignore that evidence however.
He should really call himself the Director of Opinion Based Medicine.