Tens of thousands more Britons than expected have died with experts on high alert to find out why! According to British news media, from May to December last year there were 32,441 excess deaths in England and Wales, excluding deaths from the coronavirus.
As announced in Great Britain, "excess deaths are defined as the number of people who died above the five-year average - calculated excluding 2020 because of how the coronavirus increased the death toll in that year". These shocking figures raised a number of important questions about what is happening to the country's populations, how it is changing and why so many more people are dying. Professor David Coleman, emeritus professor of demography at the University of Oxford, expressed his concern to the Mirror, but suggested two reasons that could contribute to the rise in excess deaths.
"The population is ageing, and also the population in Britain is the fattest in Europe and rather vulnerable to disease, mainly heart disease and diabetes." Something which has caused questions anyway as there are not a few who believe that an analytical investigation should be done in order to shed light.
