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Excess UK deaths in Covid-19 pandemic top 50,000 | Financial Times

More than 8k excess deaths in the week ending 1st May than normal in England and Wales alone.

3 times as many deaths in Care Homes than normal.

I’m raging. ft.com/content/40fc89…
Last week the @DHSC recorded 3409 deaths. Because they will not count deaths following pillar 2 positive tests in their death toll. That includes many care home tests.

With test sets being sent out with no return label, or not being picked up as agreed.

How can this be OK?
LOOK AT THE EXCESS DEATHS!

32,065 was the total the DHSC announced yesterday.

And 50.1k excess deaths is just to the 1st May.
First time that the ONS recalls seeing MORE deaths in care homes than in all our hospitals.
6,409 in the week ending 1st May.

19.9k MORE care home deaths than normal since the pandemic began

Because sick elderly people were discharged into care homes without a bloody test.
From the week ending March 20 to May 1, there have been 46,566 excess deaths in England and Wales, 3,710 in Scotland and 703 in Northern Ireland.

And these run at least 4 days late.

In the U.K. we are still 80% above normal.
Meanwhile utter drunken fuckwits filled our A&E depts at the weekend.

And we are STILL pushing through c 4K new cases every single day.

This pandemic started with ONE PERSON.

We are shoving through 4 THOUSAND test positive new cases every day.
Important to remember that the 50.1k excess deaths is over JUST a 6 week period

That means that ON AVERAGE COVID and its mismanagement has led to 1192 people every single day losing their lives, families losing, mothers, fathers, grandparents, husbands, wives, sons and daughters
Every one a person like the one this ICU doctor recounts, a patient whose family asked him to whisper in her ear “Your family love you and will bring you home”.

Even if it only in their hearts.

the-fence.com/online-only/a-…
A couple of handy graphs here

Wow. The Tory version of “success”.

Prof Spiegelhalter re care home deaths:-
“many are people who would have lived longer had they got to hospital”

The FT has now updated its model of excess deaths to date to be over 60k compared to normal. That is in just over 7weeks.
UK had 50,000 more deaths than usual in March & April vs 27,000 reported Covid deaths at the time

Noteworthy that 9/12 of U.K. Regions have excess deaths of more than 50%.

+ 66% higher than usual in England
• +55% in Scotland
• +42% in Wales
• +34% in Northern Ireland
Regional U.K. graphs
This @SkyNews report on care homes is chilling. It started before CV19 pandemic and shows the DHSC advice right up to 13 March, this was AFTER Cheltenham races, saying that there was low risk of CV and that there was no need to change procedures.

All. ALL the fucking data said the THE most at risk group were the ones in this age group ESPECIALLY those care homes.

And South Korea had long since grasped that if you don’t contain the asymptomaric and mildly symptomatic young they will spread it to the vulnerable.
This, from @C4Ciaran

24 deaths in ONE care home and STILL most staff not tested.

This is not a Government serious about protecting either residents OR staff who care for them.

OOps. 22 deaths.
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