COVID vs. COVID (part 2)

Further investigation of differences in COVID diagnoses as derived from application of machine learning (MLP) and as recorded in the EPR of an unknown NHS Trust

In part 1 of this mini-series we took a quick look at how the COVID diagnosis as registered in the EPR of 19,457 in-hospital deaths stacked up against the predicted COVID diagnosis I have derived using machine learning applied to a matrix of symptoms, age, sex and disease prevalence. We observed a decent overlap of 86% of cases with just 14% falling int…