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🔴 Excess deaths soar to levels higher than during Covid pandemic

Our science editor @sarahknapton investigates 🧵
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Excess deaths in England and Wales are currently running higher than in the main pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, figures have shown.

Throughout October, there was an average of 1,564 extra deaths per week, compared with a weekly average of just 315 in 2020 and 1,322 in 2021
📈 Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that in the week ending Oct 21, there were 1,714 excess deaths in England and Wales, of which only 469 were due to Covid - just 27% of the total.

It is 16.8% higher than normal
Deaths are also running higher than the five-year pre-Covid October average from 2015 to 2019, figures showed

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⚠️ Health experts have warned that some of the unexplained deaths are being caused by collateral damage from the pandemic, when operations and treatments were cancelled or delayed as the health service concentrated on Covid
The Government’s “stay at home, protect the NHS” message also left many people who needed medical treatment unwilling to bother the health service, or afraid they would catch coronavirus if they went into hospital

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The NHS is also struggling from long-term staffing issues and current shortages because of coronavirus, leading to record waits for ambulances, treatment and surgery

@Telegraph is tracking waiting times and death rates across England.

Use our tracker ⤵️
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Dr Charles Levinson, of the private GP service DoctorCall, which has seen a rise in patients presenting with advanced conditions, said: “What is driving the excess death crisis? In my view, delays in diagnosis/treatment now and throughout the pandemic.
“The reasons behind this are clearly up for debate. I also believe that the Government needs to be far more open on this and tell us what they are doing to solve it"

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🔍 The new data follow analysis from The Telegraph that showed that in the past six months, there have been more excess deaths from causes other than Covid than deaths due to coronavirus for the entire year
Excess deaths are stubbornly high and show no sign of slowing, despite a fall in coronavirus cases.

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