The Scottish Government undertook an inquiry on excess deaths since the start of the pandemic.
The inquiry closed on 10 January. The questions were:
- Has the public health emergency shifted from COVID-19 deaths to deaths from non-COVID-19 conditions?
- Is there evidence that patients are now presenting in a more acute condition?
- What accounts for the deaths from non-COVID-19 conditions?
- Is there enough of a strategic focus on the indirect health impacts of the pandemic?
- What are the realistic options open to the government in addressing the indirect health impact of the virus in winter 2021/22?
Our response (with supporting images, which sadly couldn’t be uploaded to the inquiry web page) is in the PDF file shared below.
How would you have responded?
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Is that a 5 year average Christine and what is the dotted line. ?
Excess deaths are calculated based on 5 year averages for each week from 2015-2019.
Superb response, well done!
Thanks!
Incredible effort and commitment to maintain and analyse this data for such a sustained period of time.
Wow, what’s going on with the 20 – 24 year olds? That’s particularly alarming.
There’s so much to look at with the excess deaths data. Hopefully we’ll have another post about that soon.