Coronavirus (COVID-19) related deaths by disability status, England and Wales: 2

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I expect the  Government will try and spin themselves out of this.  It is a lot worse than I was expecting:-

Far more at link:-

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/coronaviruscovid19relateddeathsbydisabilitystatusenglandandwales/2marchto15may2020


1.Main points
Provisional analysis, for the period 2 March to 15 May 2020 compares the risk of death involving the coronavirus (COVID-19) according to a person's disability status as recorded in the 2011 Census; people are counted as disabled if they said their daily activities were "limited a little" or "limited a lot" by a health problem or disability in this data source.

Males whose activities were "limited a lot" at the 2011 Census had an all ages standardised rate of death involving COVID-19 of 199.7 deaths per 100,000; for females, the rate was 141.1 deaths per 100,000.
The equivalent rates for males and females who were not disabled in 2011 were 70.2 and 35.6 deaths per 100,000 respectively.
After adjusting for region, population density, socio-demographic and household characteristics, the relative difference in mortality rates between those "limited a lot" and those not disabled was 2.4 times higher for females and 1.9 times higher for males.

Our research was based on linking deaths to the 2011 census, the most timely data available, including people aged 9 years and over; we used a regression model to adjust for specific characteristics for people in private households at the time of the Census; we aim to undertake further analysis that takes into account other characteristics such as pre-existing health conditions.