Great Britain experienced a staggering surge in death rates last year with no explanation, raising concern for the country’s health professionals.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) issued data on excess deaths, recording 32,441 cases from May to December of 2022. Excess deaths account for those who died above the five-year average.
Dr. Marc Siegel, professor of medicine at NYU-Langone Medical Center, told Fox News Digital that excluding direct deaths due to COVID-19 from the records does not omit the indirect outcomes which are considerable.
“To say that you could analyze death rates in Britain in 2022 without considering the impact of COVID is not meaningful because COVID had so many indirect effects on weight, lifestyle, stress, mental health, blood pressure, etc., that this led at least in part to the increased death rate,” Siegel explained.
In January, The Guardian reported nearly 40,000 excess deaths for 2022, noting it was a “fifth higher than the average from 2016 to 2019.” As the pandemic started to calm, excess deaths were anticipated to shift to below average levels over time, but that did not occur even in the presence of the country’s high prevalence of COVID-19 vaccination.
A disturbing trend, the data revealed higher death rates among reasonably young adults, many of them driven by other factors. The other factors cited were obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, lack of health care related to poverty, mental health, and addiction.
Coincidentally, the wave of unexplained extra deaths from causes other than Covid-19 occurred in an area which was one of the first to rollout mass coronavirus vaccination. Despite the proven associations between specific Covid-19 vaccines and afflictions such as myocarditis and blood clots, most medical professionals cite the generally overweight and aging population as cause for the mysterious surplus of deaths.
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