The Week
Experts are demanding an urgent inquiry into whether tens of thousands of non-Covid deaths since July could have been prevented.
Latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show a “devastating surge” of around 20,800 additional deaths in England and Wales in the past four months compared with the average for the same period in the five years up to 2019, said Metro. Of these extra fatalities, referred to as “excess deaths”, 45% were not related to coronavirus.
Although a higher mortality rate is expected at this time of year, concerns are growing that NHS delays during the pandemic have left patients “with previously treatable conditions suffering illnesses that have now become fatal”, said The Telegraph…
