Tuesday, August 15th, 2023, 10:08 am
Deaths in Week 31 (Latest on Record for England and Wales) Up 12% Since Pre-COVID-19 Years
‘ve just retrieved today’s data from ONS to assess the risk of dying after COVID-19 spread to the population in 2019, seeing that people my age group die a lot more. In the latest week on record, based on the data published an hour ago, 11.99% more people died than in the 5 years prior to the pandemic.
Here’s 2019:
Compare to this summer: