Fear Part 1: Death by Lockdown
Fear Part 1: Death by Lockdown The Covid-19 Coronavirus has officially played a role in over forty thousand deaths in the UK so far. In the latest Office of National Statistics release, measuring death registrations between 7 th of March to 1 st of May, ‘ between 7 March and 1 May 2020, a total of 130,009 deaths were registered across England and Wales; this represents an excess of 46,380 death registrations compared to the five-year average, and 12,900 of these deaths (27.8%) did not involve the coronavirus (COVID-19). ’ An ONS spokesman, as reported in yesterday’s FT, said that higher number was probably due to undiagnosed cases, i.e. that the forty thousand Covid-19 fatalities is an under-count. However, he also said that ‘there was some evidence of displacement of deaths from hospitals to people’s homes’. In fact, the ONS report states, ‘ over 8,000 fewer deaths were registered in hospitals than in the corresponding period in the weekly average ’, while ‘ almost 11,000 mor...