Thread: Throughout the pandemic there's been plenty of attention focused on #COVID19 deaths and on what’s happened in hospitals and in care homes - for obvious and understandable reasons. But for months there’s been another phenomenon which I find deeply unsettling.
Even after lockdown ended the number of people dying at home has stayed far, far above historic levels. There have been 28k excess deaths in people’s homes - more than in hospitals, care homes or other settings. Only a fraction of these deaths are officially put down to #COVID19.pic.twitter.com/B7lh4Xvpyh
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I’ve been banging on about this since early on in the pandemic. It's not a new phenomenon. But it remains stubbornly unchanged even months on, even as excess deaths in other settings - care homes and hospitals - have dropped into normal or negative levels.https://youtu.be/6iediLfIFFg?t=149 …
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Is this something to worry about? Or is it (kind of) good news - in that lots of people would rather die at home than in a medical setting. Frustratingly there’s been v little research on this, so over the past few weeks we’ve been working on a short film looking beneath the data
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It starts with Charlotte. Her mum, Caroline, died of ovarian cancer this summer. She had been in hospital but because of lockdown her family hadn’t been allowed to visit her, so they brought her home to try to care for her there. It was an ordeal, but they had little choice.pic.twitter.com/pRMG6DHCQ9
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