Excess deaths involving cardiovascular disease: an analysis
www.bhf.org.uk
An analysis and explainer of the excess deaths involving cardiovascular disease in England since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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.

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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          5 months ago

          yea 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.

          • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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            5 months ago

            Well the increase of 2.5 mill is post Jan 2021, the rest were probably other forms of Capitalist horror.