{"id":236496,"date":"2021-06-19T05:51:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T05:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=236496"},"modified":"2021-06-20T07:45:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T07:45:58","slug":"covid-was-only-the-24th-leading-cause-of-death-in-england-in-may-and-made-up-fewer-than-1-of-all-fatalities-official-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=236496","title":{"rendered":"Covid was only the 24th leading cause of death in England in May and made up fewer than 1% of all fatalities, official data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>ONS found coronavirus claimed 355 lives in May, which was down almost 65 per cent on the toll in April<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Continued decline deaths means the virus is now 24th &#8216;leading&#8217; cause of death, down from ninth last month<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Overall there were 35,401 deaths in England last month, which is 10 per cent lower than the five-year average<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Connor Boyd \u2013 Daily Mail June 18, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Twenty-three diseases and conditions killed more people than Covid\u00a0in England last month and the virus was responsible for fewer than 1 per cent of all fatalities, official figures show.<\/p>\n<p>The Office for National Statistics found that Covid deaths continued to fall significantly during the month, even though cases were beginning to rise because of the rapid spread of the Indian variant.<\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus claimed 355 lives in May, which was down almost 65 per cent on the toll in April, in another sign that the vaccines are providing huge protection even against the mutant strain.<\/p>\n<p>The continued decline in Covid deaths means the virus is now the 24th &#8216;leading&#8217; cause of death, down from ninth last month. It had been the country&#8217;s biggest killer for four consecutive months from November through February.<\/p>\n<p>In total there were 35,401 deaths from all causes registered in England last month, which was 10 per cent lower than normal and the second month in a row they have been below average.\u00a0Covid was the leading cause in just 0.9 per cent of the fatalities, accounting for about one in 110.<\/p>\n<p>Heart disease was the biggest killer in May (3,780) followed by dementia (3,711), while flu and pneumonia are now killing three times as many patients (1,012) as Covid.<\/p>\n<p>The low Covid death numbers and other promising statistics have given even the Government&#8217;s cautious scientific advisers confidence that England&#8217;s new &#8216;terminus date&#8217; on July 19 will go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Imperial College London&#8217;s Neil Ferguson &#8211; dubbed Professor Lockdown for his gloomy predictions which led to the initial lockdown last spring and prompted the most recent delay &#8211; said yesterday he believes deaths will remain at &#8216;manageable levels&#8217; when the country unlocks next month.<\/p>\n<p>Downing Street is said to be so impressed by the protection the vaccines are providing that lockdown could end two weeks early if Covid data continues to improve.<\/p>\n<p>No10 has opened the door to ending restrictions on July 5, amid growing evidence that assumptions used by government scientists to justify delaying Freedom Day were too pessimistic.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_236497\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Declining-Covid-death-toll.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236497\" class=\"wp-image-236497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Declining-Covid-death-toll.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Declining-Covid-death-toll.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Declining-Covid-death-toll-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 600px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-236497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ONS said Covid was now the 24th &#8216;leading&#8217; cause of death in England as of last month \u2014 down from ninth in April. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9700309\/Covid-24th-leading-cause-death-England-Office-National-Statistics.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More clear, factual evidence that we are not in the grip of a \u2018deadly pandemic\u2019, despite what the media and politicians may say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236523,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236496\/revisions\/236523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}