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Dr Andrew Bamji's avatar

I am not convinced. There was an article in the "New Statesman" in November 2018 headlined "Every week 12 young people die from sudden cardiac death. Is it time to start screening runners?". This, of course, is pre-Covid. See https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2018/11/every-week-12-young-people-die-sudden-cardiac-death-it-time-start-screening

Multiply 18 and 12. My calculator says 216. Which is more than twice 105. So the baseline death rate from cardiac events in young people is, perhaps, higher than one might have thought. It's certainly a common enough event to have featured as a case story in the Royal College of Physicians (UK) Membership exam

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John Dee's avatar

Yum yum - no surprises there! By coincidence an hour ago I published some work that is strongly suggestive of the ONS missing a fat wedge of all cause deaths for the younger age bracket. Here's the link to part 1 of what will be a 4 part series. At some point I'll flip to modelling mode and start to estimate how many young bodies they are hiding in the closet.

https://jdee.substack.com/p/age-and-gender-factored-mortality

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