{"id":268797,"date":"2023-05-13T05:35:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T05:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=268797"},"modified":"2023-05-14T09:33:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T09:33:36","slug":"there-are-thousands-more-uk-deaths-than-usual-and-we-dont-know-why-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=268797","title":{"rendered":"There are thousands more UK deaths than usual and we don\u2019t know why"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Arunn Murugesu \u2013 The New Scientist Sept 1, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The UK has seen an unexplained surge in deaths in recent months, causing concern among the country\u2019s chief medical officers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many suggestions have been put forward for why there have been about 22,500 more deaths between April and August than would normally be expected, but there is little agreement so far on the cause or causes. A spokesperson for the UK government\u2019s Department of Health and Social Care, for example, says: \u201cAnalysis is ongoing, however early investigation suggests circulatory diseases and diabetes may be partly responsible for the majority of excess deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Adrian Boyle<\/a>, president-elect at the UK\u2019s Royal College of Emergency Medicine doesn\u2019t agree that conditions like this, potentially worsened by coronavirus lockdowns delaying routine appointments, are likely to be the cause. \u201cIt takes time to die from cancer, it takes time to die from heart failure,\u201d he says. \u201cThese are all things that may have got worse during lockdown, but I\u2019m not sure that is going to be driving the sudden and precipitous increase that we\u2019ve seen in deaths this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe data suggest that it is very likely that something substantial is happening,\u201d says Michael Murphy<\/a> at the London School of Economics.<\/p>\n

So, researchers are scrambling to figure out what is going on, with National Health Service (NHS) problems, an ageing population, heatwaves and a resurgence of covid-19 all also being mooted as possible causes for the sudden hike in deaths. The fear is that this trend could worsen in the winter when healthcare systems are typically under most pressure.<\/p>\n

The increase in deaths has been seen across the UK. Between 2 April and 12 August in England and Wales, for example, 202,491 deaths were registered, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS)<\/a>. This is 19,756 higher than the five-year average for this period \u2013 about an 11 per cent increase (see graph, below). The sudden drop in recorded deaths at the start of June is probably due to the extra Jubilee bank holiday in the UK and reflects the closure of registration offices, according to the ONS.<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actually we do know why. It\u2019s just that the mainstream media is feigning ignorance: in order to buy time for the perpetrators of one of the greatest crimes in history to evade scrutiny. <\/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":[105,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Health_and_the_New_World_Order"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268797","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=268797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268802,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268797\/revisions\/268802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}