Catastrophic Health Collapse (part 1)

In this series I take a look at what ‘official’ excess death figures for England would look like if we surgically remove the hike that is the 2020 spring death spike

In a five part series that started on 6th February 2023 with an article entitled Excess Death Figures: Further Considerations (part 1) I took subscribers through an exploration of methods that may be used to derive excess death, highlighting some of the issues that arise when we try to assess whether deaths we observe each week are ‘normal’ for that tim…