Another week of shocking figures for England and Wales I'm afraid. For the week ended 29th Jan there were 18,448 deaths which compared to the 5YA figure of 12,760 shows a massive increase in deaths again. It's worth pointing out that these figures are a couple of weeks behind so we haven't seen the impact of the lockdown yet on these as they tend to start to fall a couple of weeks after hospitalisations peak (which was 19th Jan). The worst week 4 for deaths in the last decade was 13,935 in 2018 so this is over 30% higher than that which shows how bad this is. In 2021 so far we have had nearly 21k more deaths than the 5YA and 15k more than the worst 1st 4 weeks of the year (2015), these are truly shocking numbers and for some reason we, as a nation, appear to have become numb to the stats. So far in the covid period to date (45 weeks) we have had 101,227 more deaths in E&W than the norm which is around 530k per year and this is with restricted transmission and controls in place.
On a positive note we have passed the 12M 1st doses administered as of the 7th Feb so possibly pushing the 13M figure by the end of today which is the equivalent of everyone over 65 and a dent in the over 60s.
Hopefully next weeks figures should begin to see a slow down in the number of excess deaths.
On a positive note we have passed the 12M 1st doses administered as of the 7th Feb so possibly pushing the 13M figure by the end of today which is the equivalent of everyone over 65 and a dent in the over 60s.
Hopefully next weeks figures should begin to see a slow down in the number of excess deaths.