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
This ties in with my gut feeling- that the Covid pudding was hugely over-egged. My wife and I both had a respiratory virus which lasted for several weeks in January 2020 and in retrospect was almost certainly due to SARS-CoV-2. The only person I know who died of Covid out of all the contacts I have made in my 67 years on this planet was a 98 year old lady, a Holocaust survivor, who I had met at my Nephew’s wedding. I was well aware, from my colleagues who work in general practice and A&E, that the NHS effectively shut down for months after the first lockdown having first decanted many elderly patients into nursing homes, the major driver behind the CHEC death spike.
This ties in with my gut feeling- that the Covid pudding was hugely over-egged. My wife and I both had a respiratory virus which lasted for several weeks in January 2020 and in retrospect was almost certainly due to SARS-CoV-2. The only person I know who died of Covid out of all the contacts I have made in my 67 years on this planet was a 98 year old lady, a Holocaust survivor, who I had met at my Nephew’s wedding. I was well aware, from my colleagues who work in general practice and A&E, that the NHS effectively shut down for months after the first lockdown having first decanted many elderly patients into nursing homes, the major driver behind the CHEC death spike.