We may never know the cause. 🤡
one cause may be the triple hitter of nursing strikes, emergency call center operator strikes and ambulance driver strikes not to mention lack of beds:
“1,000 excess deaths each week as the NHS buckles
Excluding pandemic, figures are worst since 1951...the crisis in the NHS is killing hundreds of people a week.
“Untreated health problems as people were urged to stay away from surgeries and hospitals during the pandemic are also thought to be contributing to the deaths...
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/excess-deaths-2022-nhs-delays-blamed-rkkhhr5rm?embed=true
“There were more than 1,600 deaths above the norm as the cold weather, surging flu infections and long waits for ambulances and in A&E combined to raise mortality rates by a fifth.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/21014603/dead-bodies-make-shift-morgues/
Deaths were 37 per cent above average at home, compared with 20 per cent for care homes and 15 per cent higher for hospitals, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Of the 684 excess deaths in private homes in the last week of 2022, only 26 (4 per cent) involved Covid-19.
But the ONS said deaths involving flu and pneumonia “have increased in recent weeks” and accounted for 22 per cent of all deaths registered in England and Wales in the week up to December 30.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/sharp-rise-in-uk-excess-deaths-at-end-of-2022-amid-flu-surge-and-nhs-crisis/ar-AA16aPu3