1. Our analysis of 144,000 deaths in UK during #COVID19 1st march-12th May published today mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-… . First national study of causes of death and underlying medical conditions. led by @dr_mosama with @dataevan @cpgale3 @TomLuscher only 25% of deaths due to COVID. 
2. Age standardised mortality rates in UK ⬆️⬆️ for non-covid deaths than covid deaths during pandemic for all age groups @TheBHF @amibanerjee1 @DailyMailUK @guardian @ncurzen @ErinMichos @EricSecemskyMD @venkmurthy @DavidLBrownMD @BBCWorld @KeeleComms @AnastasiaSMihai @jcspratt
3. #COVID19 had the highest ASMR at each age group apart from young women where cancer was the commonest cause of death @SkyNews @Telegraph @Pooh_Velagapudi @poojaotherwise @adityadoc1 @onco_cardiology @mirvatalasnag @DrJenniferCo_Vu @jedicath @RodrigoBagur @VietHeartPA
4. the underlying conditions varied by age, sex and whether pt died of #covid19. In #COVID deaths, HTN, Dementia, Resp disease and DM more common. In non-covid deaths, cancer much more common @RAAnderson1 @ShrillaB @DrJosefLudwig1 @HeartOTXHeartMD @CarlChiefCard @ajaykirtane
5. interestingly, CV disease was as prevalent as an underlying condition in both #COVID19 and non-COVID deaths @TheBHF Our previous work suggests that non covid deaths have actually increased during covid pandemic medrxiv.org/content/10.110… @rwyeh @thaiscoutinhoCV @GiuseppeGalati_
6. With CV deaths greater than expected, with place of death shifted from hospitals to nursing homes and homes medrxiv.org/content/10.110… The #COVID19 pandemic is a natural experiment of knock on effects of restructuring health services to deal with a pandemic @DLBHATTMD
7. This program of work shows the importance of open data and what can be achieved rapidly if data is accessible to researchers. I hope that such data will remain open to the academic community once this pandemic is over @rwyeh @EricSecemskyMD @ajaykirtane @GreggWStone @SVRaoMD
