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Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200

More or Less: Behind the Stats

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What's Happened Since the Easter Pandemic?

Excess deaths have risen as a result of actual deaths staying at around winter levels. Thats resulted in around 11 thousand, 600 more deaths than the five year average over the last eight weeks. So is not trivial and can we take those numbers at face value, or do we need to think about them more carefully? It's still a lot of excess deaths. Could it be covid an ther still are a lot of covid infections around. Could that be it?

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