Official data has been analysed and has concluded that almost 2,700 people a week died in the UK because of the side effects of lockdown. A study conducted by economists and academics from the universities of Sheffield and Loughborough universities suggests that more than 21,000 people died as a result of the lockdown measures introduced in March of this year.
The academics analysed the work of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) data in the eight weeks that followed the national lockdown. The researchers concluded that the findings show that “lockdown has killed 21,000 people” as a result of the lockdown policy that had “significant unintended consequences” such as a lack of access to critical healthcare and a collapse in A&E attendances.
This study follows warnings that the number of people attending Accident and Emergency departments fell by 50 per cent at some points during the pandemic as well as urgent referrals for cancer dropped by 70 per cent. Different research has also said that such delays could mean up to 35,000 extra deaths from cancer a year.
Earlier this month the Health Secretary Matt Hancock ordered an urgent review into the reporting of coronavirus deaths after concerns were raised that Public Health England had “exaggerated” the true figures. Unlike in Scotland and Wales, where there is a 28-day cut-off period, anyone who has ever tested positive for coronavirus in England counts as a COVID death when they die, even if it is months later and from a clearly unrelated cause were being recorded as a COVID death according to researchers at the University of Oxford.
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