UK Excess Deaths Increase

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It's an interesting video. It's worth considering the excess deaths mentioned in the context of the nurse and paramedic strikes occuring I believe during the period.

Government medical workers in the UK stages a series of strikes in mid-late December, and although there were agreements to provide minimum safe cover (i.e. respond to life threatening ambulance calls, minimum safe staff on wards) it wouldn't be supprising if these excess deaths were related to understaffing / slow response times. In particular a peak in deaths in private homes during an ambulance strike seems... related? I was supprised this went unmentioned by the speaker and makes me distrust him a little.

The UK and perhaps other european countries are also experiencing a broad medicine shortage for reasons that are unclear to me.

There might be local short term factors he ignores but my guess that he ignores it due to the fact that these excess deaths are an ongoing observation since many many months and in many counties. So any local and/or temporary event likely is not causal just coincidental and the effect of these should be way way lower like fraction of a %.

If strikes (which specifically try to avoid putting peoples live at risk) would actually increase the excess mortality by anywhere near 10%, this would be all over the news that's for sure.

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