The total number of deaths registered in England and Wales in the week to October 1 was 12.1% above the pre-pandemic five-year average, the ONS said – the equivalent of 1,133 more deaths. It is the 13th week in a row where the ONS has reported extra deaths, or “ex...
But enough. Let’s do the numbers. First, the weekly all cause deaths. That blue line is right where we expect it to be, given population increase. Even considering late counts, where the blue line will rise a bit, we are now at no worse than an average bad flu year. Here’s the...
Nobel Laurate in economics Esther “Duflo claims that climate change creates costs, specifically through ‘excess’ deaths due to excessive heat. Poorer countries from the global south near the equator will see more days of extreme heat, and so will see a disproportionate increase in excess deaths...
Here’s causes of death. Recall the drop off at the end is due to late reporting.Butalso recall the doom deaths are reported in a double-quick hurry. This makes cancer and heart disease look better (if I can use such a word) compared to the doom. ...
(Only a month after landfall, CNN had talked to about half of the island’s funeral homes and found 499 storm-related deaths.) The current estimate is just below 3,000 deaths, with some estimates as high as 4,600. The scene that sums up the Trump administration’s go-through-the-...
Trump and Biden made similar policy choices, taking on massive deficits to lessen deaths and avoid depression. The bill for those choices was inflation, which in many ways was the lesser evil. Even in retrospect, I can’t wish the US government had taken a different path. That bill came...
(PrEP)3. When used consistently, PrEP reduces HIV acquisition rate by 90%4. Despite these developments, the burden of HIV remains high worldwide. In 2015, 2.1 million people became newly infected with HIV, and there were 1.2 million HIV-related deaths5. These findings underscore the ...
Of note, there were no significant late oesophageal toxicities or treatment-related deaths. The overall dose intensity of chemotherapy during CRT was approximately 90% and also in the recommended DL (DL 3), with all but one patient having received the full radiation dose. The consolidation ...
The UK National Health Service (NHS) Confederation, which represents NHS providers, has issued a warning statement to the UK government (available here) in light of a worrying recent upturn in COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deat...
and transmission occurs through the exchange of virus-containing droplets or expiratory particles2. Consequentially, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020, and more than 66 million infections and 1.5 million deaths were registered worldwide by the end of that year...