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在过去的18个星期里，英国国家医疗服务体系的积压工作和大流行病的压力已经使英国的停尸房装满了超过10,000具额外的尸体，所有这些都是与COVID无关的。
作者：詹姆斯-李
【中国观察2021年11月19日讯】
英国国家统计局的数字表明，在过去四个月里，英格兰和威尔士在过去18周内登记的死亡人数比五年的平均数多了20823人。只有11,531例死亡涉及COVID-19。这意味着近期约45%的死亡与其他原因有关。
专家们呼吁对这些死亡是否可以预防进行紧急调查。
牛津大学循证医学中心主任Carl Heneghan教授说。"我呼吁进行紧急调查。"
他继续说道。"如果你看看过量发生在哪里，那就是缺血性心脏病、肝硬化和糖尿病等疾病，所有这些疾病都有可能被逆转。"
他说，担心这不仅仅是一种自然发生的情况。"这不仅仅是在看原始数字和死亡证明。我们需要回头看看这些死亡是否有任何可预防的原因。"
随着NHS遭受巨大的病人积压，这位教授告诉电讯报。"这可能是大流行期间缺乏可预防的护理所带来的后果，以及其下游所发生的情况。"
Heneghan教授呼吁采取行动，他说。"我们迫切需要了解什么地方出了问题，并对根本原因进行调查，以确定那些可以防止进一步不必要死亡的行动。"
截至11月5日的一周数据显示，每年这个时候的死亡人数比通常预期的要多1659人。
其中，700人不是由COVID引起的。
随着未来几周登记的死亡人数增多，超额死亡人数可能会增加。
英国卫生安全局的数据显示，自夏季以来，心力衰竭、心脏病、循环系统疾病和糖尿病的死亡人数比五年平均数多出数千人。
私人住宅的死亡人数也比五年平均水平高出40.9%，在截至11月5日的最近一周内，有964人超额死亡。
开放大学应用统计学荣誉教授Kevin McConway说。"每年的这个时候，各种原因造成的死亡人数确实会增加，但总数仍然高于2015年至2019年五年中相应一周的平均数。"
这位专家补充说："因此，根据这个定义，我们仍然有超额死亡，就像我们已经连续18周有超额死亡一样，而且这些超额死亡并非都是由COVID-19引起的。"
NHS panic as mortuaries fill with thousands of non-Covid deaths – urgent inquiry calls
NHS
backlogs and pressure from the pandemic has seen British mortuaries
filled with over 10,000 extra bodies over the last 18 weeks, all of
which are non-Covid related.
By James Lee
Figures
from the Office for National Statistics suggest that over the last four
months, England and Wales registered 20,823 more deaths than the
five-year average in the past 18 weeks. Only 11,531 deaths involved
Covid. It means that around 45 percent of recent deaths were related to
other causes.
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Experts called for an urgent inquiry into whether the deaths were preventable.
Professor
Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at
the University of Oxford, said: “I’m calling for an urgent
investigation.”
He continued: “If you look at where the excess
is happening, it's in conditions like ischemic heart disease, cirrhosis
of the liver and diabetes, all of which are potentially reversible.”
Worried
that this is not just a natural occurrence, he said: “This goes beyond
just looking at the raw numbers and death certificates. We need to go
back and find if these deaths have any preventable causes.”
With
the NHS suffering huge patient backlogs, the professor told the
Telegraph: “This could be the fallout from the lack of preventable care
during the pandemic, and what happens downstream of that.”
Calling
for action to be taken, Profesor Heneghan said: “We urgently need to
understand what’s going wrong and an investigation of the root causes to
determine those actions that can prevent further unnecessary deaths.”
Weekly
figures for the week ending November 5 showed that there were 1,659
more deaths than would normally be expected at this time of year.
Of those, 700 were not caused by Covid.
The excess is likely to grow as more deaths are registered in the coming weeks.
Data
from the UK Health Security Agency show there have been thousands of
more deaths than the five-year average in heart failure, heart disease,
circulatory conditions and diabetes since the summer.
The
number of deaths in private homes is also 40.9 percent above the
five-year average, with 964 excess deaths recorded in the most recent
week, which runs up to November 5.
Kevin McConway, emeritus
professor of applied statistics at The Open University, said: “Numbers
of deaths from all causes do usually increase at this time of year, but
the total number remains above the average for the corresponding week in
the five years 2015 to 2019.”
The expert added: “So, on that
definition, we still have excess deaths, as we have had for 18 straight
weeks now, and not all those excess deaths are due to COVID-19.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1522592/NHS-news-mortuaries-fill-panic-deaths-inquiry-covid