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The document discusses a significant discrepancy between the number of COVID-19 cases reported by Public Health England (PHE) via notifiable disease statistics (87 cases) and those reported through another source (145,129 cases). It suggests that reporting practices among doctors may not be capturing the true number of symptomatic cases due to various administrative challenges. The authors propose that the notifiable disease data may better represent actual COVID-19 trends than the PCR test results alone, urging a review of diagnosis and testing processes.





