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Gary Sharpe's avatar

Thank you for collating this info and presenting it so clearly. I have been following the Scottish data [amongst others] and this is useful, if depressing, summary. Also, thanks for standing up, and speaking out.

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Scottish Unity Edinburgh Group's avatar

Thanks, appreciate the comment. Albeit for everyone in the group I think it's a case of "we couldn't not do this". Simply a case of wanting to make clear the underlying facts - rolling up our sleeves may or may not achieve that, but 'leaving it to the experts' was going nowhere.

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Alan's avatar

I have been tracking the same data in Northern Ireland with similar results. Excess deaths since March +12% with some weeks being +28% against 2015-2019. Our official 5-year average includes both pandemic years so reporting lower excesses. Disproportionate excess deaths in the elderly and massive excesses in deaths at home.

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Scottish Unity Edinburgh Group's avatar

Thanks for the work, and wow!, your statistics group are worse than ours. We have one pandemic year included, which is a bad enough compromise, but including two sounds crazy. I'm not familiar with the N.I. data - what sort of excess patterns were seen in 2020 & 2021, similar with England? Again, thanks for the work, it's really important to keep track of

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Alan's avatar

Excess deaths in 2020 were +11% and in 2021 were +11% also.

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