And if they had suffered from longer term covid complications they could die months after the 28 days have passed but still have really been a covid death. To my mind the number of covid related deaths is being under reported, not over. My cousin caught covid whilst in hospital for something else. He went home 2 weeks later supposedly fine. He died 4 months after that of a stroke. This could easily have been caused by a covid blood clot, or could have happened anyway, but we'll never know. I do know my own blood remained 'sticky' for much longer than the 28 days after symptoms started.I don't like the stats on Covid deaths. The numbers quoted are for deaths from ALL CAUSES of people that had a positive test within the previous 28 days. That will include anyone stabbed, shot, injured in an accident, with a very short prognosis due to many conditions etc. When anyone is admitted to hospital for any reason they are immediately given a test and if positive moved to a covid ward. That person will have Covid on the death cert, even if, for example, he had life threatening injuries from a road traffic accident or whatever.