Excess deaths in the past year were thousands higher than in the pandemic year of 2021 – 67,724 vs 54,770 above the pre-pandemic five-year average – and just a quarter were from Covid. Lucy Johnston has the story in the Express.
Unexpected deaths are more than 10% higher than the pre-Covid average, with experts warning we are facing “a catastrophe of equal proportion to the pandemic itself”.
They are calling for an urgent investigation into the causes, with figures showing that there were more excess – or unexpected – losses last year than in 2021.
There were 67,724 extra deaths in England and Wales between April 30th 2022 and April 28th 2023. That is 12.8% above the pre-pandemic five-year average.
Of these, a quarter were attributed to Covid, with three-quarters given as non-coronavirus causes.
This excess is higher than the number of excess deaths during the pandemic in 2021. Then there were 54,770 extra, mostly Covid deaths compared to the pre-pandemic five-year average – a 10.3% increase.
Experts have puzzled over the cause of the post-pandemic rise, which has been largely attributed to heart problems or diabetes.
Some blame the long-term effects of delayed healthcare due to lockdown measures, while others point to the record NHS waiting lists.
Cancer specialists are also increasingly alarmed over the delayed diagnoses or treatments translating into increased mortality.
In December, Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England, blamed reduced prescriptions for statins and other cholesterol-lowering drugs during Covid restrictions.
However, other experts argued that statins take a long time to have an effect on reducing heart disease, while an Oxford study found there was no reduction in those prescriptions.
Some have blamed an ageing population. But figures show most excess deaths over the past year have been in those under 75, with fewer than expected from conditions such as dementia and Parkinson’s.
Last week oncologists re-stated their alarm about a “cancer time bomb”, with thousands of people losing their lives to the disease due to delayed diagnosis and treatment. They predict tens of thousands of excess deaths over the next decade.
Professor Gordon Wishart, a breast cancer surgeon of private diagnostic service Check4Cancer, carried out the cancer research. He said: “The levels of excess deaths we are seeing is a catastrophe of equal proportion to the pandemic.”
Professor Richard Sullivan, at King’s College London, said: “We fear the cancer death waves will get bigger and bigger leading to tens of thousands of lost life years.”
The Department of Health said it had published a recovery plan to combat waiting times, adding: “We are fully focused on improving cancer outcomes.”
Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of Oxford University’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine said: “How high do excess non-Covid deaths have to go before we do anything about it? We need to urgently investigate what is causing this rise as well as immediately prioritise cancer diagnosis and treatment.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop press: Lucy appeared on GB News to talk about this issue.
— lucy johnston (@thelucyjohnston) May 22, 2023
67,000 unnecessary deaths last year – more than pandemic year of 2021 AND 10 pc above 5 year average
If no urgent action wave upon wave of extra deaths will continue ….
Why is govt failing to investigate? pic.twitter.com/ghrq3HM0Xu
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Rep. Jim Jordan, who inquired to the former Trump administration official: “When the government told us that the vaccinated couldn’t transmit it, was that a lie or is it a guess?”
“I think it was hope that the vaccine would work in that way,” Birx replied.
https://naturalnews.com/2022-07-04-vaccine-mandates-predicated-on-hope-rather-science.html
Cut the excuse making wankers:
“Yes but ‘long-covid’”
“My granny deferred seeing her GP because she didn’t want to overwhelm the NHS”
”Tory underfunding”
What’s one more death jab sneaking onto the market? We’ll be expecting an official investigation into the excess deaths/injuries from the deployment of these gene therapies any day now, obviously…
”Bimervax, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by HIPRA Human Health, has today been authorised by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
It becomes the 9th COVID-19 vaccine to be authorised by the UK’s independent medicines regulator.
Bimervax combines a part of the SARS-CoV-2 virus spike protein with an ‘adjuvant’ – an additional ingredient designed to trigger a stronger immune response. It can be given as a booster injection in the upper arm, to those aged 16 years and over.
The clinical evidence for this authorisation is based on data from a study of 765 adults who had received primary vaccination with 2 doses of the Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine and who were given a booster dose of either Bimervax or Comirnaty. The vaccine demonstrated a strong immune response, and the most common side effects were mild, and self-resolved within a few days of vaccination.”
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bimervax-covid-19-vaccine-authorised-by-mhra
Just a reminder of the now infamous June Raine’s ”..from watchdog to enabler” clip, so as we can all feel rest assured, you know?
https://twitter.com/BandyGit/status/1686685964557545472
So we are still on emergency approval, although there is no emergency? That is doublkethink of the worst kind. 1984 here we come, and it is almost complete! This is a me too response to a manufacturer from an alleged regulator that is so far as to be fit for purpose as to be criminally liable. So much for Quangos, ban the lot!
Nick, thank you for putting pandemic in inverted commas. So important.
If SAGE estimated that 75% of COVID admissions where because of COVID and not because of a positive test upon entering hospital for an unrelated reason, it’s a safe assumption that the real number was close enough to 25% (probably from below) that they had to admit something to muddy the waters. And then, there’s of course the estimated.
If records had been kept proberly, nobody would need to have estimated the number as it would have been known. This is a tacit admission that – at no point during this ‘pandemic’ – the pandemistas really knew the number of COVID hospital admission because they really didn’t even want to know them. Which – in turn – implies that the pandemic of headlines and restrictions never coincided with a mass-outbreak of a highly infective and very dangerous disease. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been possible to turn a blind eye to reality.
The shocking bit here is how cheaply done all of these fabrications where. Eg, people listening to Ferguson despite his record of gross mispredictions on anything. If you really want know what’s going to happen in future, ask Professor Pantsdown and bank on the polar opposite happening.
Remember too that a PCR test did not show active infection, just that there might have been some contact. Remember 40 cycles is useless for diagnosis of active, 20 is more reasonable as an active infection indicator. Everything was lies from top to bottom. The figure was more likely to be 1%.
It will be interesting, if that’s the right word, to see what happens in future.
Shouldn’t we have seen a reductiion due to seasonality, dry tinder already gone and herd immunity?
It sems as though “covid” is still very prevelant and circulating widely, entirely as GVB predicted, due to the criminal folly of jabbing erstwhile fit populations with a none sterilising jab.
GVB also says it’s a myth that virus always mutate to a more benign/more transmissible state. Their apparent seasonality effect is mainly (obviously lack of warmth/sun/vitaminD3 are factors) due to herd immunity being achieved in the general population during winter exposure – which we can’t achieve due to the jab.
If he’s correct on the latter point, the jabbed world is in big trouble.
‘I confess that as time passes, I forget just how bonkers it all was. For example, in addition to our own Sages, we had Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO of Pfizer, along with Gates, Biden, Fauci, et al., telling us throughout 2021 that vaccines stopped transmission. I’m sure, like me, you’ll still hear people say, “But they never said that vaccines would stop transmission.”’
Would you believe that a trusted expert speaking on the trusted BBC, as long ago as three days ago, is still claiming that the Covid vaccine prevents transmission?
If you find that hard to believe, listen for yourself, if you can bear it:
Dr Sarah Pitt – a “leading virologist” and “a microbiologist at the University of Brighton and fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science” – clearly suggested on BBC Radio 5 Live on Sunday night that the vaccine prevents transmission. Talking to Stephen Nolan, 2:47:00 to 2.47:37 into the programme, here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001p6ys
Dr Pitt said that if anyone is offered a booster vaccine:
“then they should definitely take it, because it’s much better not to get Covid, because it’s a really really nasty infection, and can have some very serious consequences for you, and you also don’t want to be passing it on to the people around you for the same reason, so definitely have the vaccine, if it’s offered to you.”
A couple of minutes earlier – at 2:45:40 – she stated that the vaccine is “very safe and very effective” and that if you “unfortunately experience quite severe side effects”, if you get to the hospital in time, you not only might be okay but you also have protection against Covid!
So that’s all good!
Anybody still proclaiming this codswallop after this long and after all the evidence that has been compiled which refutes these claims just sounds like they’re in the tight grasp of religious fervour, because it really has become more of a belief system for these cult figures now, in my opinion. They make baseless claims with nothing in the way of scientific evidence to back up their statements. They’re just saying words, basically. Pitiful really and should amount to career suicide if it weren’t for the fact we’re living in
Anybody with vaccine damage should sue her, come on lawyers, this is a good class action opportunity!
Absolutely brilliant thankyou, I needed a laugh. Good to know there is an alternative universe. I might apply to Brighton University to see if I can also pick up a clown Phd, will they accept my village idiot Bsc and my fuckwitt Msc as entrance?
Undoubtedly. You simply need to write a meaningless thesis praising every one of these “Covid experts”. You can copy their data, I’m sure they have so much supporting this!
Bourla, Fauci etc said it stopped transmission. The Pfizer study itself was never designed to test for transmission.
They cannot remeber saying this, now known as the Biden excuse!