News Round-Up
24 April 2024
Of 27 pregnant or recently pregnant women reported to have died with Covid in the UK up to March 2021, how many actually died from Covid? Very few, it appears.
Lockdown restrictions had little to no effect on the number of COVID-19 deaths, a new meta-analysis of empirical studies from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics and Global Health has found.
Deaths are running high across Europe this winter. But it's not all Covid. As many as half of the excess deaths are from something else. But what?
Winter deaths are usually running high in January, but this year is different. According to the ONS, in the week ending January 14th there were 6.1% fewer deaths than the five-year average. Time to accept it's over.
The tougher Covid restrictions in Scotland and Wales over winter and throughout the pandemic may not have been worth it as there is no evidence they have "really done very much", scientists have said.
New data from the ONS show that the pandemic year of 2021 was less deadly than 2015 – and that was pre-Omicron. Can we go back to normal yet?
How do we know that official Covid deaths are overestimated? In the two-month period from March to April of 2021, more than 4,000 Covid deaths were recorded in England. Yet excess mortality was negative.
In a day of good news, Britain's daily Covid cases fell for the first time in a month, daily Covid deaths declined 30.4% week on week and hospitalisations dropped in London.
In new analysis, Prof Norman Fenton argues that the apparent high vaccine effectiveness against death may be an illusion created by problems in the definitions used in the data.
More vaccinated people appear to be dying from Covid than are officially counted. This is also likely to lead to vaccine efficacy being overestimated.
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