What is driving all cause excess mortality? Omicron is likely to generate more avoidable deaths from non-covid causes than from covid, a risk that has not been communicated clearly, writes Dominic Harrison Dominic Harrison professor and director of public health and wellbeing 1 The first purpose of using non pharmaceutical interventions to control the spread of an infectious disease is to ensure that the health and care system is not overwhelmed. This is critical to avoiding loss of capacity to

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... deliver urgent life-saving treatment for all causes of avoidable mortality.