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Author: Amitava Banerjee; Laura Pasea; Steve Harris; Arturo Gonzalez-Izquierdo; Ana Torralbo; Laura Shallcross; Mahdad Noursadeghi; Deenan Pillay; Christina Pagel; Wai Keong Wong; Claudia Langenberg; Bryan Williams; Spiros Denaxas; Harry Hemingway
Title: Estimating excess 1- year mortality from COVID-19 according to underlying conditions and age in England: a rapid analysis using NHS health records in 3.8 million adults
  • Document date: 2020_3_24
  • ID: 11hi1jel_6
    Snippet: Currently the UK government has not implemented full suppression strategies. Thus, for example, people are still 'socially close' in work and public places. Social distancing and other strategies have focussed on high-risk groups, with the CDC specifying "older adults, and people who have serious chronic medical conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and lung disease" (9) . The UK government published guidelines on 16 March 2020, specifying p.....
    Document: Currently the UK government has not implemented full suppression strategies. Thus, for example, people are still 'socially close' in work and public places. Social distancing and other strategies have focussed on high-risk groups, with the CDC specifying "older adults, and people who have serious chronic medical conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and lung disease" (9) . The UK government published guidelines on 16 March 2020, specifying particular population subgroups at high risk from COVID-19 infection (10) . Based on these guidelines, the UK has moved to the pandemic's "delay" phase and has recommended stringent "socialdistancing" measures telling people how to stay away from others (11) . Today (22 March 2020) the government announced that 1.5 million 'extremely vulnerable' people in England with underlying conditions (including COPD and heart disease) would be asked to 'shield' for 12 weeks, but did not release information on how this list was chosen and others not (12) .

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