Statisticians at Oxford and Cambridge universities said the numbers were now sufficiently worrying for an inquiry to be launched into the cause. There are fears that thousands of people have died at home or in care homes because they could not access medical treatment as resources were diverted to cope with the virus pandemic. Professor […]
Mr Annan, from Blueskiesresearch.org.uk, said an earlier lockdown would have been shorter and had less economic impact. In a related blog, he wrote: “Implementing the lockdown one week earlier would have saved about 30,000 lives in the current wave (based on...
Delays to cancer surgery will lead to almost 5,000 deaths, a study has warned, amid growing fears about the broader impact of the coronavirus crisis. Analysis of Public Health England data by the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) found that patients could have to...
Dr Jason Oke, a senior statistician at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, also said it was now possible to predict when coronavirus deaths would stop in Britain. “There has been a steady decline in ONS deaths and...
Earlier this week, The Telegraph reported that Age UK had warned that stress and anxiety caused by the coronavirus lockdown was fuelling cases of malnutrition among Britain’s elderly. The charity said the “excess” deaths in care homes could...
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