🚨🚨 Over the pandemic, for those aged 1-19, the leading cause of excess mortality was Suicide and injury or poisoning of undetermined intent, followed by Accidental poisoning, Homicide/probable homicide
➡️ Any murder of a child is horrific but to see these stats is shocking
The numbers of deaths are low but are above the average.
Suicide and injury or poisoning of undetermined intent (12 excess deaths, a 12.0% increase), Accidental poisoning (7 excess, a 31.8% increase), and Homicide and probable homicide (7 excess, an 18.4% increase).
Numbers from a new ONS release looking at excess deaths over the pandemic.
The prolonged period of non Covid excess deaths were from July 2021 onwards and the data above refers to that period to December 2021.
For most of the period up to July, we had fewer non Covid deaths than average.
When you take the whole period from March 2020 onwards suicide drops out as excess which suggests fewer than average up to July 2020 (a positive).
But 35 more homicides than average in 5-19 year olds over March 20 to Dec 21 (average 152 over 2015/19)
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🚨🚨 BBC Wales News - ‘There are over 1200 Covid19 in hospitals patients across Wales.. the highest level since last March’
FACT CHECK
➡️ On 21 March there were 130 patients actively being treated for Covid. The number quoted includes anyone in hospital who had a +ve test
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The BBC journalist is spouting out the same line the Welsh Health Minister gave at a press briefing earlier on. I know some of the journalists there understand the numbers so disappointing stuff like this gets broadcast.
The 1200 includes anyone with a positive test regardless of reason for being in hospital, and those who no longer have Covid but are recovering, or may be ready for discharge but no care in community.
Also includes those who caught the virus in hospital.
🚨🚨 ‘Most common causes of excess deaths [in 1-19 year olds] tragically was excess suicides, poisonings and homicides, we could be talking about murders’
➡️ Discussing with @Iromg non Covid excess deaths over pandemic.
Most common excess cause in 50-79 year olds heart disease
More on the numbers here with link to data in the thread
🚨🚨 There are around 14 patients in #Wales on ventilated beds with #Covid19, some will be primarily in for other things but have the virus.
There are 50 unoccupied ventilated beds and 157 beds with non-Covid patients.
We have seen a sharp rise in patients with Covid in general beds over the past couple of weeks but the latest estimates indicate that 75% were not in hospital primarily because of the virus, but for other reasons.
Covid may have exacerbated a condition to impact a patient.
A significant proportion of the patients in hospital with Covid-19 caught the virus in hospital.
For the most recent week, it is estimated to be around 264 patients, with a total of 11,095 since the start of the pandemic.
🚨🚨 It is estimated that between 80% to 90% of children aged 8 to 11 in England have antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the specific virus that causes #Covid19.
➡️ Government should offer antibody tests for children for parents considering vaccines