Two weeks to flatten the curve was based on a lie, but then the lie was revealed the pandemic politics could not let go. The result was public health policy that was remarkably bad for public health. COVID only put millions at risk from missed treatments or visits that would uncover health issues, and that political piper has come calling.
The UK reports 9,616 excess deaths over the summer months, none of them from COVID.
Data from Public Health England (PHE) shows that during that period there were 2,103 extra death registrations with ischemic heart disease, 1,552 with heart failure, as well as an extra 760 deaths with cerebrovascular diseases such as stroke and aneurysm and 3,915 with other circulatory diseases.
Acute and chronic respiratory infections were also up with 3,416 more mentions on death certificates than expected since the start of July, while there have been 1,234 extra urinary system disease deaths, 324 with cirrhosis and liver disease and 1,905 with diabetes.
Months of COVID-only treatment priority have had the expected result. Well, expected by those of us who’ve been reporting the likelihood for close to a year.
Since the start of the pandemic, charities and health bodies have warned that people were struggling to access care as the NHS switched to fighting the pandemic.
Now, 18 months of delayed treatments may be starting to take their toll.
For all its flaws, the NHS in England keeps up with the reporting, whereas I expect we’ll never know much about excess deaths in New Hampshire or the US. Not like COVID.
One person dies linked even remotely to COVID19 and its front-page news followed by the cases and hospitalizations. But never in the appropriate context. The result has been thousands locally who had to skip wellness or annual exams or are reluctant to even see a medical professional for fear of being arranged about getting vaccinated.
The result will be mortality figures that should easily eclipse even COVID’s fake numbers.
None of which will likely impact the March of the Covidiots and their one pathogen public health obsession, to the detriment of public health.
