UK Health Chiefs Make Shocking Admission: UK Faces ‘Prolonged Period’ Of ‘Excess Deaths’ Due To Government’s Unnecessary Lockdowns

According to Sir Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance, the lockdown’s side effects will cause a “prolonged period” of excess deaths in the UK.

They assert that as a result of surgeries being postponed and individuals avoiding the NHS during the pandemic, the nation’s mortality toll from heart disease and cancer cases is on the rise.

In a technical study on the pandemic that was released on Thursday, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England and the Chief Scientific Adviser outlined their observations and gave future health leaders advice on how to handle such dangers.

MSN reports: Across eleven chapters the authors cover topics such as care homes, contract tracing, testing and lockdowns.

An introduction to the report stresses it is not a “definitive narrative” of the pandemic to date, or policy decisions taken. However, it’s the first comprehensive run-through of events and implications, which occured over the last two-and-a-half years, published by officials.

It comes after the start of the UK Covid-19 inquiry, chaired by Baroness Heather Hallett, which will begin public hearings next year examining the Government response to the pandemic.

Report suggests GPs moving to remote appointments

In chapter 10, “improvements in care of COVID-19”, the authors set out changes to healthcare, such as GPs moving to remote appointments and the postponement of elective surgeries.

There were “limits” to how far telephone and video GP appointments could replace face-to-face appointments, the report said, but added “in many cases the balance of risks and benefits still favoured remote support”.

Discussing measures put in place to respond to the surge in Covid patients it said: “Shifting to remote consultations, discouraging unnecessary health setting presentations and asking that those with specific symptoms avoid healthcare settings unless necessary has been an effective way to reduce potential transmission risks and additional burden during a time of significant pressure.

“However, this must be balanced with a risk that health-seeking behaviours were adjusted to such a degree that there was significant unmet need, with resulting impacts on mortality and morbidity.”

Despite Sir Chris stressing public “emergency care was always open for business” , far fewer people presented at A&E during the first wave, the report said.

“Undoubtedly some people who would (and could) have come forward did not because of a sense of altruism or perceived risk of being in hospital,” it added.

Delays in patients coming forward for help, a reduction in preventative medication – such as statins – and the cancellation of surgeries and screenings “will have led to later and more severe” non-Covid illness, the authors conclude.

“The combined effect of this will likely lead to a prolonged period of non-COVID excess mortality and morbidity after the worst period of the pandemic is over,” it said.