direct to your inboxDavid Oliver is an experienced NHS Consultant Physician and medical writer from Manchester, who has played a variety of national medical leadership and policy roles and has a weekly column in the British Medical Journal.He is currently managing two Covid wards at a hospital in the south of England - and says conspiracy theories have placed the reputation of NHS professionals under attack.In a piece for the M.E.N, the researcher, who is an expert in older people's care, confronts a claim much-repeated online - that a conspiracy surrounds the way Covid-19 deaths are counted."In the two weeks leading up to the December 1 st Parliamentary vote on the introduction of regional Covid-19 measures, daily deaths in England had run.