Death rates since March 2020 up by 3% in France, 5% in the UK and 17% in the US
The UK had one of the worst increases in death rates of major European economies during the Covid pandemic, BBC analysis has found.
Instead, he recommended looking at deaths for any reason, since they do not depend on what a country calls a Covid death. We compared countries by measuring how much their death rates rose from those seen in the five years before the pandemic. The combination of a terrible first wave and the rapid spread of the alpha variant just as the vaccine rollout was getting going contributed to a huge death toll.
The UK's vaccine rollout is regarded as a "global exemplar", says Prof Devi Sridhar of University of Edinburgh.And the UK looked better than any major European economy bar Spain in that second year - with death rates below historical averages.Some of the largest rebounds we found were in countries like Germany, New Zealand and Norway, who had fared better in the first two years of the pandemic .
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