{"id":271818,"date":"2023-08-03T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271818"},"modified":"2023-08-04T07:27:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T07:27:44","slug":"experts-call-for-urgent-investigation-as-excess-deaths-spark-dangerous-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271818","title":{"rendered":"Experts call for urgent investigation as excess deaths spark \u2018dangerous\u2019 theories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucy Johnston \u2013 Sunday Express July 22, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

An urgent investigation is needed into why excess deaths are near pandemic levels, because the lack of an explanation is fuelling \u201cwild and dangerous theories\u201d, experts warn.<\/p>\n

Government figures suggest the number of extra or \u201cunnecessary\u201d fatalities this year is higher than 2021 and 2022, and on a trajectory that could even surpass 2020.<\/p>\n

Of particular concern is the 15 to 44 age group, where cumulative deaths are tracking above all recent years, including 2020.<\/p>\n

Some commentators have suggested delayed medical treatment due to lockdown measures might be contributing to the rise.<\/p>\n

Others have blamed the indirect impact of pandemic measures, such as increased loneliness and isolation, as well as a rise in alcohol consumption and recreational drug use.<\/p>\n

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Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has previously hypothesised that rising non-Covid excess deaths could have been caused by a fall in heart drug prescriptions. But subsequent research has shown there was no such drop.<\/p>\n

It was also claimed doctors\u2019 strikes coincided with the jump in deaths. However, the British Medical Association said walkouts were not \u201cthe root cause\u201d. It insisted: \u201cThere was no change in mortality trends during strike action.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest figures mean that since 2019 more deaths are being recorded each week than the five-year average. Only a small proportion of these are now being directly attributed to Covid.<\/p>\n

Dr Charles Levinson, Medical Director of private GP service Doctorcall, said the \u201csilence\u201d from Government was allowing conspiracy theories to flourish, including from anti-vaxxers.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cA refusal to openly discuss these statistics is an abdication of responsibility from parts of the scientific community, leading to an irreversible erosion of trust by parts of society.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been radio silence on the crisis from almost all, leaving a vacuum which is being filled by dangerous theories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last night Professor Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine at Oxford University, called for an urgent inquiry.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThere has been a complete failure by the Government to investigate these deaths correctly. This means we don\u2019t know how to prevent further unnecessary deaths, fuelling wild speculation about the drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Department of Health and Social Care said: \u201cA wide variety of factors have contributed to excess deaths in recent months and we\u2019re taking action to reduce them.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur forthcoming Major Conditions Strategy will look at how best to diagnose and manage the main drivers of ill health and death.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has previously suggested that rising excess deaths may have been caused by a fall in heart drug prescriptions. However, we would suggest that Whitty is feigning ignorance because he knows that there is more than a grain of truth in these \u2018dangerous\u2019 conspiracy theories <\/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":[105,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271818","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=271818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271838,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271818\/revisions\/271838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}