Can somebody explain this for me because I'm a bit miffed. I'm looking at two government graphs for covid deaths. One says deaths by date reported and the other one says deaths by date of death. Yesterday, 88 people died, but 397 deaths were reported. Does that mean that there are a lot of liars reporting deaths that didn't happen, or did they suddenly find a trove of reports for deaths from 6 months ago?
Why do they always use the deaths reported number on the news rather than the number of people that actually died?
GOV.UK Coronavirus dashboard
coronavirus.data.gov.uk
The Number of deaths per day is still more or less flat-lining since 21st Oct, and it might already be dropping before the lockdown has started.