April 1977 & April 2020
Exploring peculiar hikes in monthly excess non-COVID mortality in England & Wales (rev 1.1)
By now it should be abundantly clear to subscribers that something highly peculiar was going on during April 2020. We may try and pin the blame on false negative test results but this doesn’t explain why this problem only reared its head in April, and then among older females. A false negative is a false negative and test performance (sensitivity/specif…