On average, there have been over 500 additional deaths a week involving CVD since the pandemic began.
While deaths from Covid-19 have fallen year-on-year since the beginning of the pandemic, the number of deaths involving CVD have remained high above expected levels.
Excess deaths involving CVD outnumber those involving all other individual disease areas since the beginning of the pandemic in England.
No doubt, the reasons for continuingly high numbers of excess deaths related to CVD in England are complicated. However, along with deaths caused by Covid-19 among people with heart and circulatory diseases, we think the following factors have played a role:
The longer-term impact of Covid-19 infection on the heart and circulatory system.
Extreme and continued disruption to GP and heart care services.
This fucking sucks.
Not sure where this specific graph was from, but the data was from ONS Labor Force Survey Estimates.
https://www.health.org.uk/news-and-comment/news/health-foundation-responds-to-ons-update-on-economic-inactivity-due-to-long-term-sickness
You, uh, know about the US Labor Force with disabilities estimates, right?
Nothing in graph form, which seems to have a stronger effect on me
I'll let you decide if you wanna bum yourself out.
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Oh, that's almost 9 million people. Nine million lives forever altered by a virus that we had every chance to stop, and an untold million+ dead, and we just throw it in the memory hole and don't talk about it. This is a cool and normal way for things to be, and my psyche is feeling immense healthiness.Well the increase of 2.5 mill is post Jan 2021, the rest were probably other forms of Capitalist horror.
Look on the bright side!
We stopped telling people to do things they don’t FEEL like! (This doesn’t apply to trans people however, Twitter said they’re bad.)
