Just checking to see if it was real or another right-wing disinformation attempt. You link is some tabloid, that doesn't link to the supposed "government study."
Anyone else have a checkable link? (not holding my breath)
Sorry I see you are not from UK - the issue of excess deaths was covered by at least three papers in the UK - including The Telegraph in the UK a respected broadsheet. What they reported was from Government Analysts, and the Office of National Statistics in the UK: Link at the bottom
Some of the salient points in regard to the effect of the lockdown, long and short term.
- Over the whole period presented from March 2020 to more than five years from now, there are approximately 25,000 excess deaths resulting from social distancing and economic impacts in the chosen scenario.
- Approximately 16,000 excess deaths are estimated because of changes in emergency care and social care within a year from March 2020 – the majority of these are deaths in care homes; changes to elective care, primary, and community care are not expected to result in deaths in the short term in this scenario.
- Socio-economic effects are estimated to have the greatest impact on quality of life of all categories investigated, over the short and long term combined; from March 2020 to more than five years from now, the impacts of lockdown and a resulting recession are estimated to reduce England’s health by over 970,000 QALYs – the health impacts of contracting COVID-19 are still unclear in the long term, but between March 2020 and March 2021, these represent 570,000 lost QALYs.
These figures are estimates. I am not sure why the ONS uses the more concrete "there are..." gramatical construction on projections/predictions over the next 5 years. But the figure of 16,000 non-covid deaths was attibuted to attendances at A&E being down by about half and to deaths in care homes.
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