Category: excess deaths
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SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT TO MAKE CUTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH PROTECTIONS IN TIME FOR WINTER
Spending cuts to the Health and Social Care budget will reduce expenditure on vaccines, test and protect and PPE for health workers – our last remaining, albeit futile defences against Covid-19
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More on excess deaths
This short post is a follow up to Graham Checkley’s post. The figures in this comment are for the period up to 10th August 2022, with thanks to Almuth Ernsting for her painstaking research. Since 9th August 2021, when the Scottish Government abandoned most mitigations against Covid, 5,719 more people have died in Scotland than would be expected from…
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Excess deaths: the human cost of ‘living with Covid’
Graham Checkley looks at the human cost of living with Covid In February of this year, the Scottish Government published their plan for “Living safely with Covid”. Since that date there have been 2,213 excess deaths, 1,185 from Covid. It’s a simple enough human statistic, how many people are dying compared to a prior 5…
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