DEAR Captain

Tom was finally laid to rest yesterday, having lifted all our lives. But it saddens me that he is constantly described as yet another ‘victim’ of Covid. He may have tested positive for the disease at his time of passing, but his cause of death was really pneumonia as a result of extreme old age. And increasingly it seems there may be many others in a similar situation, people who have died with Covid but not necessarily

of Covid. Isn’t it time this distinction was reflected in the statistics?