Fri Nov 19, 2021 – 1:16 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Excess deaths in Britain recorded over the last four months show around 20,000 more people dying than the five-year average, with almost half of those deaths from conditions not related to the novel coronavirus, according to figures from the U.K.’s Office for National Statistics (ONS). Experts are wondering if lockdowns might have anything to do with that number.
The Telegraph reported Tuesday that in England and Wales between July 2 and November 5, 20,823 more deaths were registered than the five-year average, based on ONS data. Of those deaths, 11,531 had COVID-19 listed as a contributing factor, leaving 9,292 deaths, or 45 percent, as completely unrelated to the virus.
Speaking to the Telegraph, Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care, said that the non-COVID figures relate to conditions such as “ischemic heart disease, cirrhosis of the liver, and diabetes, all which are potentially reversible.”
“This could be the fallout from the lack of preventable care during the pandemic, and what happens downstream of that,” the professor said.
Heneghan called for “an urgent investigation” into the driving factors behind
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