The United Kingdom (U.K.) Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it changed how excess deaths are calculated.
Using the new method, the office reported nearly two-thirds fewer excess deaths for 2023 compared to the number of excess deaths the office had previously calculated, using the old method.ONS said the changes accounted for “trends and population size, ageing and mortality” and the removal of data from weeks and months “that were substantially affected by the immediate mortality impact of the coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) pandemic.”Comedian Russell Brand, internet lecturer John Campbell, Ph.D., and other commentators and experts weighed in on the controversial change, announced Feb. 20 on X (formerly known as Twitter) by an ONS spokesperson: Campbell in a Feb. 23 podcast showed that for week 21, 2023, the U.K. listed 1,066 excess […]
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