Pattern of post Covid deaths amongst the elderly
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 11:40 pm
An interesting comment from my GP sister - that her practice noticed a distinctive pattern of deaths amongst their Care Home patients.
These were generally elderly patients (naturally), but not necessarily the oldest or weakest - who had contracted Covid, and from which they had made seemingly made a reasonable recovery.
However, there did seem to be a pattern of them generally 'fading' after their recovery from the acute phase, and although definitely not showing any Covid symptoms, they often died within a couple of months of recovering.
These weren't patients who had needed admission to ICU, and had lost the principal Covid symptoms, so there was no reason to include Covid on the Death Certificate, and being well beyond the 28 day following their PCR test, they wouldn't have been included in the NHS or the ONS statistics for 'Covid' deaths, but nor could they be counted as 'missed diagnoses because of Covid' deaths - they were under the active care of their GP practice, but was no specific diagnosis that their conditions would have warranted.
It is suspected that maybe absence of visitors during shut-down, or that many of the people they are seeing are having to wear full PPE was generally suppressing their engagement with the world, but that's not clear.
These were generally elderly patients (naturally), but not necessarily the oldest or weakest - who had contracted Covid, and from which they had made seemingly made a reasonable recovery.
However, there did seem to be a pattern of them generally 'fading' after their recovery from the acute phase, and although definitely not showing any Covid symptoms, they often died within a couple of months of recovering.
These weren't patients who had needed admission to ICU, and had lost the principal Covid symptoms, so there was no reason to include Covid on the Death Certificate, and being well beyond the 28 day following their PCR test, they wouldn't have been included in the NHS or the ONS statistics for 'Covid' deaths, but nor could they be counted as 'missed diagnoses because of Covid' deaths - they were under the active care of their GP practice, but was no specific diagnosis that their conditions would have warranted.
It is suspected that maybe absence of visitors during shut-down, or that many of the people they are seeing are having to wear full PPE was generally suppressing their engagement with the world, but that's not clear.