Britain has endured a decade of early deaths. Why?
The mystery of 250,000 dead Britons
In RECENT YEARS Britain has been hit by one health crisis after another. First came the covid-19 pandemic—then backlogs in health and social care that the coronavirus exacerbated, and a long winter of strikes and overwhelmed emergency departments. But in the background, long before the pandemic hit, an even more disturbing story has been unfolding. Britain has endured a grim decade during which perhaps a quarter of a million people died younger than expected.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “The missing quarter of a million”
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