{"id":41190,"date":"2018-12-03T06:14:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41190"},"modified":"2018-12-03T06:14:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:14:48","slug":"britains-excess-winter-deaths-soar-to-highest-in-over-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41190","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Excess Winter Deaths Soar To Highest In Over 40 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-12-02\/britains-excess-winter-deaths-soar-highest-over-40-years\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Britain&#8217;s Excess Winter Deaths Soar To Highest In Over 40 Years<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1182\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1182\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><strong>Winter is always a period of increased work for health services, <\/strong>with statistics every year proving this in the most blunt of fashions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excess winter death <\/strong>figures represent the difference in the number of people dying during the winter months compared the rest of the year and,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/12414\/excess-winter-deaths-eng-wal\/\"> as Statista&#8217;s Martin Armstrong points out,<\/a> are <strong>a good indicator of just how hard the cold season has been. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Infographic: Excess winter deaths highest in over 40 years | Statista\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/12414\/excess-winter-deaths-eng-wal\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/infographic.statista.com\/normal\/chartoftheday_12414_excess_winter_deaths_eng_wal_n.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic: Excess winter deaths highest in over 40 years | Statista\" width=\"499\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The winter of 2017\/18 was especially hard and, combined with a strong flu and problems associated with vaccines, <strong>it was the worst winter for excess deaths in over 40 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Excess Winter Deaths Soar To Highest In Over 40 Years Winter is always a period of increased work for health services, with statistics every year proving this in the most blunt of fashions. Excess winter death figures represent the difference in the number of people dying during the winter months compared the rest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[93,1353,11955,17997,885,23313,4318],"class_list":["post-41190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-britain","tag-cold","tag-influenza","tag-statista","tag-winter","tag-winter-deaths","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41191,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41190\/revisions\/41191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}