01-12-2021, 11:39 AM
(01-12-2021, 10:33 AM)baggy1 Wrote: Final week of 2020 figures are now official (week 53) up to the 1st Jan 2021. This makes comparison a bit more difficult as there aren't many week 53s obviously however there is one included in the 5YA figure which was 2015 when there were 7,524 deaths. 2020 week 53 is showing 10,069 and when you take into account there are two bank holidays reducing the registrations makes it grim reading.
It does give us a final figure for 2020 of over 75k excess deaths in E&W than the 5YA and that includes the 1st 12 weeks which were nearly 5k under average, which equates to 80k more deaths than normal in 41 weeks.
To put a bit of context around the numbers in comparison to other years, including adjustment for population growth (with a good explanation as to why that isn't a straight forward measure) Sky did a good video on the news about it last night:
https://news.sky.com/video/covid-19-anal...9-12185455
And there are still some out there that are saying it's just flu.
Numpties of the highest order as were those saying just go back to normal...