Excess mortality 1975 – 2021 (part 2)

England & Wales monthly excess mortality by quinary age band & sex: males 45+y

Please see part 1 of this series for an explanation of how I arrived at these slides…

It is with 45 - 49y males that we see a clear thumbprint of something pandemic-like happening in Apr 2020 and again in Jan 2021 that breaks records for England & Wales going back to 1975. Take those two months out of the picture and the pandemic vanishes. Also vanishing…