Heart Failure Deaths in May Hit 44% Higher Than Pre-Pandemic. Why is Government Refusing to Investigate?

During the week ending May 26th 2023 there were 1,397 recorded deaths from heart failure. That’s 424 or, if you prefer it as a percentage, 44% higher than the ‘expected’ number of 973 deaths for the same week in 2020. That seems like a very significant change to me.

But why am I comparing the level of heart failure deaths in 2023 to the expected level of heart failure deaths in 2020? It’s because since 2020 the ‘expected’ level of deaths has been inflated by high levels of deaths since then. For a more detailed explanation of what’s happened please see a previous piece that was published in the Daily Sceptic on May 18th.

The Office for Health Improvements and Disparities reports that heart failure deaths were only 16% higher than expected during week ending May 26th 2023. I think this is misleading.

Table 1 illustrates how heart failure deaths in 2021 and 2022 being incorporated into the level of ‘expected’ deaths in 2023 has skewed the data. In 2020 we expected 973 heart failure deaths during week 21, in 2023 we appear to expect 1,209, an increase of 24%.

Put it another way; no excess deaths at all would be reported unless heart failure deaths in 2023 were more than 24% greater than in the same week in 2020. Nothing to see here, move along please!

Table 1 shows the issue:

Table 1

These figures come from the Office for Health Improvements and Disparities and can be seen here. The data are available via a very neat selectable graphical tool but for those of you who like to get into the weeds there’s also a data download available.

If those were the expected deaths from heart failure, what was the actual level? Table 2 shows us the answer. In the final week of May 2023, 1,397 deaths were registered as being from heart failure in England. This was 16% higher than the 2023 ‘expected’ level, but 44% higher than the 2020 ‘expected’ level.

Table 2

Of course, data from a single week aren’t necessarily representative of a general trend, and I confess there’s a bit of cherry-picking here. Nonetheless, heart failure deaths in the previous week were even higher at 1,468, the week before they were at 1,363. Maybe 1,397 isn’t an outlier?

We can look at the trend by simply comparing the data from the 10 weeks numbered 12-21 for both 2020 and 2023 as reported by the Office for Health Improvements and Disparities.

Figure 3 shows the level of registered deaths (orange line) in 2023 compared to the ‘expected’ level of heart failure deaths (blue line) in 2020. The grey bars show the variance between the two lines as a weekly percentage in line with the right-hand axis. You can see the 44% increase in week 21, the trend line has hovered between 25% and 30% over the past 10 weeks.

Figure 3

You may recall that the Chief Medical Officer published a paper ascribing the increase in heart failure to a reduction in the prescriptions for statins, an explanation soon debunked by Drs. Heneghan and Jefferson (see here). To my knowledge no further explanation has been floated by the authorities; rather, they’ve ignored the problem. After all, leave it long enough and the inflation of ‘expected’ heart failure deaths will make the excess magically disappear. Soon enough they may even be reporting that heart failure deaths are reducing year on year, even though they may still be much higher than the pre-pandemic level.

Finally, in Figure 4 I’ve shown the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities reported excess deaths for both heart failure and cancer. Bear in mind that the baseline in the case of heart failure has been inflated so the chart, arguably, understates heart failure excess deaths. The same is not so true for the cancer deaths. Expected deaths from cancer in 2023 are only 3% higher than they were for the same period in 2020. Over the 10 weeks from week 12-21 cancer deaths in 2023 have been only 1.7% higher than the expected level for the same period in 2020. This suggests the sharp rise in heart failure deaths is not due to a general increase in deaths from all causes such as might be caused by an ageing population.

Figure 4

Make of it what you will, but it seems to me that deaths from heart failure should be a real cause of concern. It’s not so long ago that the likes of Hancock and Gove were telling us that ‘one death is one death too many’. The lack of concern with the current level of excess deaths, many of them heart related – which the Government has now said it has no plans to investigate – highlights that this view was always sanctimonious tosh.

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Myra
2 years ago

That is the billion dollar question 🙃

Mogwai
2 years ago

What is weird is that I found this article via Twitter. It isn’t on the DS home page. What I see on the home page though are 2 identical article links to the crown jewels Roger Watson article. Hmmm….It’s because I was slagging off the spying spooks isn’t it? lol

huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I don’t understand this Mogs.

Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Do you mean my post? Just earlier this article wasn’t here on the home page. I could only access it via an external link from someone’s Twitter page. Must’ve just been yet another mystery glitch.

huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Oh I see.

I must admit the Crown Jewels article appeared as a double entry most of the afternoon.

DomH75
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Probably just that the homepage hadn’t been updated when the article was added to the site.

TheBasicMind
2 years ago

Good article. Just immensely frustrated it’s still only in publications likes of the Daily Sceptic and TCW and not in publications like The Telegraph yet. We know why of course.

David101
2 years ago
Reply to  TheBasicMind

It is quite incredible, isn’t it, that the Telegraph have been meticulous in their investigations and exposure of the various other scandals, like the Lockdown Files, the Twitter Files, Party Gate, Snog Gate, etc. but is silent on vax harms. I am now firmly of the opinion that if you find some significant development to be true, while at the same time we get radio silence in the mainstream about the same topic, you can be certain there’s some cover up going on further up the “chain of command”.

iainclark
iainclark
2 years ago

Why aren’t they investigating why their policy is killing people? I wonder.

Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  iainclark

It’s a mystery, isn’t it…

LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
2 years ago
Reply to  iainclark

Why investigate when you already know the answer.

Mogwai
2 years ago

You may recall recently I posted about the new ‘SKYCovian’ Covid jab that has been authorized by the MHRA, and I was wondering why it stated on the gov website that it was to be a ”primary vaccine”. Fortunately Prof Fenton has looked at this in more detail and it is supposed to be for developing countries. So why is the MHRA giving it the go-ahead? Because it will also be used on the British public but they just won’t know what they’re getting. The short 2min vid he shares has more info. Prof Fenton reveals some concerning findings and I’m glad he’s going to challenge June Raine on this and raise these issues; ”You state that this vaccine was approved “after meeting the MHRA’s required safety, quality and effectiveness standards”. Yet your own guidance document makes clear that there is no efficacy data, and minimal safety data for this vaccine. So what exactly are the required safety, quality and effectivness standard? As the vaccine is primarily intended for people previously unvaccinated why did you authorise its use for a country like the UK that is highly vaccinated? Are you dispensing the vaccine to already vaccinated people in the UK?… Read more »

Capecorona
Capecorona
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

First I have heard of SKYCovian, despite living in a developing country. Vaccine uptake here is minuscule, even if you want it most has expired or has been returned to sender. Couldn’t give it away to the rest of Africa. It’s over folks.

huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Capecorona

You are on the Billy and Klaus ‘to do pile.’

Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Capecorona

Probably because a lot of Africa hasn’t wanted the death jabs and fared better as a result. However, I noted that there are some mini mRNA factories en route to, think it was Uganda…or was it Kenya, somewhere in Africa anyway, courtesy of BioNTech.
Oops, it was Rwanda;
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/more-on-the-mini-vaccine-factories

For a fist full of roubles

The government is refusing to investigate because it will reveal their culpability

BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago

The following is from Dr Sam White’s Telegram channel & relates to a friend of his’ experience at a large A&E in East Birmingham UK. Bear in mind that the population in this particular area has a relatively young demographic overall & life expectancy lower than the UK average. “These stories are very sad indeed. My recent visit to A&E was a stark reminder that so many healthy people who got jabbed and suddenly and unexpectedly died. During my recent 6 hour stint at Heartlands Hospital Accident and Emergency Department following my recent freak accident on the golf course. I was tended initially by 2 nurses. When they asked me what I did work wise and I told them that I coached a lot of doctors, scientists and lawyers who have been censored, de-platformed and suspended for speaking the truth. They wanted to know more so we talked about the experimental mRNA jabs, one nurse said that she had got one jab only and regretted it and that she had been bullied and coerced into this. The other nurse told me that she was also being bullied to get it, so she managed to book some holiday time she was… Read more »

huxleypiggles
2 years ago

Bloody hell. That brought a lump to the throat.

BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

It’s a tough read. I used to work that community patch, young strokes in that age range were incredibly rare so would fit with the low numbers pre bioweapon injection quoted by the awake doctor.

TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
2 years ago

Hang on, she’s seeing cardiac issues in young men up from about 1 per quarter to 52 per quarter! So a 50 times increase?!

And presumely these young men were jabbed some time ago, so these numbers indicate the damage that is building up over time.

BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  TheTartanEagle

It’s horrendous. This indicates that a 44% increase in heart deaths is a gross underestimate for this part of Birmingham.

Myra
2 years ago

But why are they not speaking up? Why this continued wall of silence?
If the health professionals are not speaking up, what are they doing? Continuing to vaccinate, whilst not vaccinating themselves?
The mind boggles.

BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  Myra

Myra those are really pertinent questions which I’d love to have the answers for. Some may be raising questions, sowing seeds by asking awkward questions. The fact that more staff are waking up is a positive thing. Change can only come about when there is a critical mass in favour of the change.
The biggest problem is the management who will be right behind the evil agenda.

JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  Myra

Because medicine is a ‘Guild’. The Guild is controlled by a relatively small club of Senior Consultants and Professors, who think with one mind. They are at the top of the ladder, no further to go except to retire with a knighthood and maybe become an ‘advisor’ to Government or Big Pharma, and so will happily brown-nose the Government goons and support whatever the official narrative is. The medical profession has been captured by the pharmaceutical industry, which lavishes billions on its members in grants for research, grants to attend conferences, support and help to write and have published papers (essential to have on your CV when applying for a new position), money for local meetings and sponsorship for larger conferences, donations for and gifts of equipment particularly for private practitioners. In return for these Earthly rewards, all they have to do is sign over their soul to the Devil. The path up the career ladder depends entirely on the good graces of these few. Any junior doctor, registrar who does not toe the official line will not be allowed to advance. Nursing is different as the profession is not controlled by a handful of higher-ups. The same is true… Read more »

RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

A friend’s brother-in-law works in a large hospital in Liverpool. She told me he has said they are seeing a huge increase in myocarditis cases.

BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  RTSC

It’s so sad. These live needlessly damaged or lost because of a psychopathic reign of terror unleashed by the government & Parliament, the defence of the people being one of it’s primary stated objectives…. They failed abjectly at that.

huxleypiggles
2 years ago

“The Office for Health Improvements and Disparities reports that heart failure deaths…”

WTF are these lot and who gave birth to them?

godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
2 years ago

“Mike Batayeh, known for playing the manager of a laundromat turned meth lab in Breaking Bad, has died aged 52, US media reported.

The actor and comedian’s family told TMZ he died at home in Michigan in his sleep on 1 June after a heart attack. 

Batayeh did not have a history of heart issues, according to the family, describing his death as very sudden.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65851444

There seems to be quite a lot of famous people dying much younger than expected for no apparent reason.

Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

When I finished watching the Belgian series Public Enemy on Netflix ( 3 series in total ), at the end they showed that three of the cast members had died. I searched to see what I could find, all of them were in their 50s and I could only find the cause of death of one which was a heart attack. You occasionally might watch a series and see one ”In memory of..” because a person from the show died but I’ve never seen three, especially only in their 50s. Call me paranoid but whenever anyone dies suddenly or decades before the expected end of their life I always think the obvious but the problem is this particular detail is never disclosed publicly is it, so we’re just left wondering.

RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

Dr Peter McCullough explains that two danger points for the jabbed are adrenaline-related activities (which is why so many professional sportsmen have keeled over) and for anyone it’s the the stage of sleep when you are starting to wake up and the body is preparing, naturally, for increased activity.

It’s a ticking time-bomb every time you go to sleep.

Castorp
Castorp
2 years ago

Let me get this straight folks..

So we know the vaccines are a kill job (Moderna patent on key part of SARS-COV-2 granted in 2016, evidence of gain of function research via EcoHealth Alliance).

We know they knew what they were doing (serious adverse events at a rate of 1 in 800 per Pfizer’s own clinical research data).

So we know they are murderers. Sick. Psychopaths. Evil.

And we now expect to do what, reveal to the population that they are heinous criminals?

By the way, anyone in the ‘oh no this was a cock-up and not a conspiracy, there’s no plan’ – please do challenge any of the above, by all means.

In short – our own governments have plotted to murder us. Us and our children.

We are at war with the deep state.

huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Castorp

“We are at war with the deep state.”

I and one or two others on here have been banging this drum for many months.

transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

My default assumption now is that any announcement or policy that emanates from the state and its cronies is designed to or likely to harm me and my family

Castorp
Castorp
2 years ago

Absolutely agree.

huxleypiggles
2 years ago

That’s a pretty sound position to take tof. I also take the view that any announcement from the state or its cronies will be lies.

JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Yes. We are at war, have been for some considerable time – The People v the Government.

Those in Government know this which is why the programme of fear where we are moved from one potential doom to the next to distract us, and why the media has been co-opted to broadcast and amplify the message and why any dissent is silenced.

Unfortunately not enough of the People realise their Government allied with a global coalition is waging war on them… but there is some hope, as more and more are waking up.

Sound like a conspiracy theory? We’ll see.

TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
2 years ago
Reply to  Castorp

5th generation warfare, we don’t even know who the enemy is.

Castorp
Castorp
2 years ago
Reply to  TheTartanEagle

Oh we do alright.
Anyone who actively promotes and facilitates the Net Zero / CBDC / Digital ID / Covid pass / Facial recognition / Social credit score agenda is an enemy and wants to completely subjugate and exterminate us.
Why else would they be giving a bio-weapon to millions of innocent people?

BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  Castorp

Add Universal Basic Income, 5G & LED street lighting to your excellent summary list.

TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
2 years ago
Reply to  Castorp

Add in unifrog, a ghastly personal data logger school children are forced to sign up to, school records databases and university loans, a treasure trove of data, surveillance and tracking.

JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  TheTartanEagle

Government.

JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  Castorp

Cock-up is one off incident; conspiracy is serial incidents. Twice is coincidence, thrice is conspiracy.

huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://www.farminguk.com/news/dairy-farmers-urged-to-look-out-for-heat-stress-as-temperatures-soar_62765.html

Won’t be long now and we’ll have cows dying of Sudden Cardiac Arrest.

NFU are also now insuring against “heat stress.”

Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Jesus wept. So what do they do with their herds over in India, Africa..basically all of the places in the world that are consistently hotter than the UK? Talk about insulting people’s intelligence..

huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

You couldn’t make this shyte up Mogs.

BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Direct Energy Weapons being used against livestock? That’s what 5G is…. It’s what those nasty LED street lights are too. Slowly raise the temperature to cause harm, like the frog being slowly boiled.
Wondered why they were so busy building 5G towers in rural areas during lockdown?

JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Foot and Mouth or another outbreak of BSE.

huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://www.farminguk.com/news/elon-musk-slams-irish-climate-plan-to-cull-thousands-of-cows_62721.html

Who knew about this?

Elon Musk has come out in favour of Irish farmers and has condemned the slaughter of their herds.

Welcome news.

Castorp
Castorp
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Please don’t fall for this Musk guff.

huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Castorp

I know what you mean but for now this is good news.

NeilParkin
2 years ago
Reply to  Castorp

I have no doubt Musk is for Musk. However, any contrary voice against the chaos and madness is welcome.

huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/migration-watch-hero-deserves-all-the-support-we-can-give/

Alp Mehmet’s Migration Watch and his petition calling on the government to get a grip of the scandal that is Bliar’s legacy.

I’m sure we can all get behind this.

RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

Dr Peter McCullough explains why, here:
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/dr-mccullough-testifies-in-the-pennsylvania?r=ylgqf&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

The Government knows full well what’s happening, and why. But it doesn’t dare admit the cause, any more than the US, Australian, NZ or Canadian Governments will, who are experiencing similar levels of excess mortality.

DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago

Sanctimonious tosh puts it far too kindly. It’s a view taken by a load of cowardly lickspittles who are doing everything they can to hide their liability for killing people.

LaptopMaestro
LaptopMaestro
2 years ago

If you already know the answer, why would you investigate?

JXB
JXB
2 years ago

Why is the Govt refusing to investigate? Because those in Govt, past and still, their lackeys and cronies in Big Pharma would have to take the blame and most likely criminal prosecution.

Why do you ask?

David101
2 years ago

Put these 4 pieces of logic together:

  1. The Covid vaccines are known to cause myocarditis, pericarditis and various coronary issues as their main side effects.
  2. We are seeing a marked increase in heart-related deaths, especially in the past 10 weeks, but NOT deaths caused by other factors.
  3. The government were responsible for fast-tracking the rollout of the jabs to the UK population, before they were officially licenced and tested, on the strength of the declaration of a PHEIC. Guilty as charged.
  4. The government has recently announced it has NO PLANS to investigate the recent stark increase in the incidence of heart-related mortality.

… And what is the most obvious conclusion we can come to? I won’t insult anyone’s intelligence by revealing the answer!