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Wrong. This has nothing to do with NHS because a similar surge of mortality has been seen in other countries. Surprising the BBC journaliste didn't think of checking this out.

Example with France: https://www.leparisien.fr/societe/mortalite-autant-voire-plu...

It's a bit late, though, to complain about a consequence of lockdown now.

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Do you have peer reviewed evidence that lockdown is responsible for the excess deaths and not - for example - a deadly virus that happens to have been ripping through the population?

> Do you have peer reviewed evidence that lockdown is responsible for the excess deaths and not - for example - a deadly virus that happens to have been ripping through the population?

The article literally talks about this, and it doesn't seem directly related to COVID. Part of it is no doubt delayed diagnoses which led to terminal cases, inability to get care for mental health, and overtaxed and underfunded health systems.

I don't need a "peer-review scientific study" or "50year-long statistical study on 10,000 people", and then a peer-review to review the peer-review, to know that if you can't go to hospitals for 2 years, you'll be more ill as a result.

there is a health crisis in France too with underfunded and understaffed public hospitals (lots of healthcare workers resigned after covid)

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