Here's an interesting chart. It shows excess deaths (i.e. number of deaths above average) going back to the 1800's. As you can see there have been some extraordinary events over that period that has caused the number of deaths in the UK to "spike" the biggest ones include the Irish famine (1845), Spanish flu (1918), WWII (1939) and of course our current Covid-19 pandemic (2020) Judging by the current death rate and the unlikeliness of it diminishing significantly for many months to come I have a feeling that the 2020 bar will eventually be knocking on the door of similar levels to those other historic events before we get through the other side.
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