The British Heart Foundation claimed disruption to heart care led to 30,000 excess deaths in England since March 2020. But disruption may not be the only reason. Around 21,000 heart disease sufferers died with Covid listed as the underlying cause.
What about Covid-19?
However, when trying to explain why around 30,000 more people than expected died with IHD, it seems important to include the fact that around 21,000 IHD sufferers caught a previously unknown virus and died with it listed as the underlying cause. It also seems very uncertain that the entire excess was caused by disruption to healthcare, as some of the coverage and the original quote from the BHF chief executive suggested.
The spokesperson added: “Undoubtedly, many of the 29,956 excess deaths in this period [27 March 2020 and 31 August 2022] involving IHD were specifically caused by Covid-19 infection. A spokesperson for the charity said: “We also accept that a quote from our Chief Executive should say that disruption to heart care has ‘contributed to’ 30,000 more families losing a loved one, and we are happy to rectify this.”Professor James Doidge, a senior statistician for theand honorary associate professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, told Full Fact: “At an individual level, attribution of cause of death is inherently imperfect and subjective.
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