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Estimated cumulative excess deaths during Covid, World
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
But at the bottom 'developed by the Health Security Agency' so it's likley using the definition that doesn't specify the cause of death on the death certificate.
That's the #1 result on Google for uk coronavirus deaths.
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Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only tip of the iceberg
Some insights from the Netherlands, the country right to the east of the UK: the healthcare system is still under extreme pressure and everyone important is pretending the pandemic is over.
Nurses and other healthcare professionals have been quitting and are not planning to come back because there is no chance of increased pay (which only drives up the pressure to those still working in healthcare).
Hospitals are working through their backlogs. Care that could be postponed has been postponed for two years and now with fewer healthcare professionals and medical issues left untreated for a while (even people starting on chemo got told to wait at some point) the recovery process is slow. This, of course, isn't great for the relatively large elderly population as they're very reliant on lots of healthcare.
I don't know what the state of the NHS is these days, but I've heard distressing signals from all over the UK about people being unable to get a GP appointment in time and the entire hospital system being overworked. I don't know if it's politicians trying to cut more healthcare costs, the pandemic, Brexit, or everything at once, but the NHS doesn't seem to be doing well.
Over here, we have all but stopped testing for COVID. It's seemingly presumed to be endemic by the government, much like other governments seem to do. In every sector sick leave has also been on the rise, as the government told us to expect; the consensus seems to be that the current variants of COVID aren't that much of a risk and we should just go back to normal and let the disease run its course. With reports of long COVID symptoms on the rise [0] I very much doubt that, but the government doesn't seem to care about sick people, so I'm not surprised.
Excess mortality in the Netherlands has been high ever since the start of the pandemic [1]. Every time the virus spreads, excess mortality rises. The covid death rate [2] is claimed to be extremely low but at the same time COVID testing has also pretty much stopped, whereas previously anyone dying with COVID was also written up to have died with COVID. Based on the mortality graphs I'd say we've passed another COVID peak but nobody (I know, at least) takes an official tests so the statistics are very much flawed; wastewater analysis [3] seems to suggest a "hidden" endemic that coincides with the rise in excess mortality, though.
My personal conclusion: we're in (or have just passed) yet another mass COVID spread event but everyone has grown tired of taking any anti-COVID measures, so they stopped caring. I dread to think what the winter is going to look like if the summer death toll is this high. The UK's COVID numbers seem to agree with a similar peak in positive tests but I don't know how well the reporting is done over the pond.
There is also another factor at play: the extreme heat due to climate change we're facing in Europe. In (previously) unusually warm summers or cold winters, old and sick people have always had a tendency to die more often. The heat of the past few weeks definitely isn't the only cause, but I doubt it's not a factor this year with record heat reported all across England.
As an aside: the amount of people here immediately jumping to the conclusion that vaccines are the cause is... quite depressing. We're still very much in a pandemic but everyone just seems to _want_ to blame vaccines while we, as a society, try our best to stuff our fingers into our ears and pretend we can't hear anything. Do whatever you want to feel better, blame the vaccine, blame Bill Gates, blame the lizard people running the Illuminati, but it won't solve the problem.
[0]: https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/nearly-twice-as-many-cases-invol...
[1]: https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2022/31/excess-mortality-in-al...
[2]: https://coronadashboard.government.nl/landelijk/sterfte
[3]: https://coronadashboard.government.nl/landelijk/rioolwater
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Has anyone noticed how all UK government websites like https://www.gov.uk/, https://www.nhs.uk/, https://tfl.gov.uk/, https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ have the same look-and-feel and the same UX? Are there more such examples of countries that have uniform UX for their government websites?
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[OC] South America is leading the world in vaccination efforts.
Single shot, for ages 12+ is currently 92.6%, which is what this graph is looking at, putting the UK towards or at the top in this set of rankings.
- An untrustworthy government during a pandemic—a lethal combination
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‘Bring back facemasks and social distancing’, says NHS leader Chris Hopson
In the UK which the story talk about that's not true https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
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Two new Omicron subvariants are spreading quickly in New York State.
Worldofmeters is going off of deaths on certificate I think, based on how the graphs from UKHSA look. But deaths from certificate always get revised upwards if they're for recent days.
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covid-19-excess-deaths-tracker
- Brazil hits 700,000 virus deaths, 2nd highest in the world
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Unvaccinated in Sweden under 50 no longer recommended for Covid vaccine - The Public Health Agency of Sweden
Source: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker
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[OC] Worldwide Cumulative Excess Deaths
“excess deaths”: take the number of people who die from any cause in a given region and period, and then compare it with a historical baseline from recent years. (src)
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[OC] Total excess mortality per million people during the pandemic
Yeah, see, that's the problem then and why it's all going wrong, you can look at the data here: https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-excess-deaths-tracker/tree/master/source-data
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The WHO admitted PCR tests yield false positives
The Economist magazine has a great page, updated frequently here
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There were approximately 14.83 million excess deaths associated with COVID-19 across the world from 2020 to 2021, according to estimates by the WHO reported in Nature. This estimate is nearly three times the number of deaths reported to have been caused by COVID-19 over the same period.
The code for their analysis is available on GitHub: https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-excess-deaths-tracker
The Economist - Covid Excess Death Tracker per country
What are some alternatives?
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dupeguru - Find duplicate files
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covid-19-the-economist-global-excess-deaths-model - The Economist's model to estimate excess deaths to the covid-19 pandemic
govuk-puppet - Decommissioned: Puppet manifests that used to provision the legacy GOV.UK stack.
covid-19-data - Data on COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases, deaths, hospitalizations, tests • All countries • Updated daily by Our World in Data
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exposure-notifications-server - Exposure Notification Reference Server | Covid-19 Exposure Notifications
find3 - High-precision indoor positioning framework, version 3.
world_mortality - World Mortality Dataset: international data on all-cause mortality.
covid-policy-tracker - Systematic dataset of Covid-19 policy, from Oxford University
covid-pass-verifier - The COVID Pass Verifier app is the official NHS COVID Pass Verifier for England and Wales. NHS COVID Pass Verifier app is a secure way to scan an individual’s NHS COVID Pass and check that they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, had a negative test, or have recovered from COVID-19.