The mainstream publication, The Daily mail.co.uk, reports that since the beginning of the Covid business, 100,000 Britons have “needlessly” died from heart attacks and strokes. The explanation is that there was disruption to normal medical services due to the lockdowns. There is truth in this. However, there needs to be further investigation before mechanically claiming that the disruption to the health services was the sole cause. As far as I am aware, hospitals did not shut down for emergencies such as with cardiovascular events, and neither did ambulances. What was affected was elective surgery, which is not relevant. And, as always, the impact of the mRNA vaxxes does not even get discussed. As noted in other articles at the blog today, there needs to be autopsies performed to examine the impact of mRNA spike proteins upon the heart tissue, and brain, of victims.
“Almost 100,000 people have died needlessly from heart attacks and strokes since the start of the pandemic, a report revealed yesterday.
The British Heart Foundation said continuing disruption to the NHS and the fallout from Covid has left the country in the ‘grip of a heart and stroke care emergency’.
Its analysis of official data found there have been more excess deaths involving cardiovascular disease (CVD) than any other condition – with 96,540 since March 2020.
That’s more than 500 extra deaths a week over and above what would be expected for heart disease since the start of Covid.
BHF chief executive Dr Charmaine Griffiths said: ‘It is deeply troubling that so many more people with CVD have lost their lives over the last three years.’
She added that it was ‘clear we are firmly in the grip of a heart and stroke care emergency’, and warned: ‘If little changes, we could continue to see a sustained rise in death rates.’
Airports raise cardio danger
Living near an airport could raise the risk of heart attacks and related problems, suggest researchers.
Hospital admissions for cardiovascular diseases among residents whose homes are under Heathrow’s flight paths were analysed by a team led by Imperial College London.
They found ‘evidence of a small increase in risk’ of being admitted among those who had experienced higher noise the night before, according to a paper published in online journal Environment International. The study said aircraft noise has been found to disrupt sleep and raise blood pressure and stress hormone levels.
More than half the excess deaths involving CVD came in the first year of the pandemic, with Covid known to cause heart and circulatory problems.
The data from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities showed these fell dramatically in the second year – March 2021/22 – but rebounded during the following 12 months.
Experts said continuing disruption to NHS heart care was likely to be behind the spike, with strikes leading to further delays.
Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, associate medical director at the BHF, said Covid ‘no longer fully explained the significant’ excess deaths involving CVD, adding that ‘extreme and unrelenting pressure’ on the NHS was a factor.
The number of people waiting for time-sensitive cardiac care was at a record of nearly 390,000 at the end of April, according to latest figures.
Professor John Greenwood, president of the British Cardiovascular Society, called for ‘urgent prioritisation of CVD prevention and treatment’.
A government spokesman said: ‘We are cutting waiting lists, ambulance response times are falling, staff increasing and we are improving access to blood pressure and health checks.
‘We know there is more to do which is why we are consulting on a Major Conditions Strategy to tackle CVD.’