excess deaths
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexcessanddeath
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excess
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈek.ses/us/ˈek.ses/
extra:
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death
noun[C or U]
uk/deθ/us/deθ/
the end ...
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After the study, the rate of excess deaths depends on the number of patients in the study and the policy recommendation.
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This range includes about one million excess deaths in 1937-38 from the terror of those years.
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In this age group, the estimated number of respiratory admissions exceeded deaths by only 50 %, excess circulatory admissions were less than 20 % of excess deaths.
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However, adding economic growth as described above, the number falls to slightly more than 1,000 excess deaths along the lowest path.
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Our conclusions are further supported by the relative numbers of excess admissions and excess deaths.
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Excess deaths resulting from the famine may have amounted to around 5.7 million.
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It has been estimated that there are 8,000 excess deaths for every degree celsius that the winter is colder than average.
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It is not possible, however, to provide a precise estimate of the excess deaths produced by exposure to these pollutants during recent years.
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In the north-west alone, there were an estimated 2,830 excess deaths in the winter months of 1998–99.
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However, the number of excess deaths—some 35,000 each year—is still far too high.
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There are 35,000 excess deaths in winter that are attributable to the cold.
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In the space of two years, there were nearly 1,500 "excess deaths" in the city due to higher mortality rates in materially deprived wards.
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Those excess deaths must be partly caused by cold.
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But that, of course, is only excess deaths over the number normally caused by the pollution of the atmosphere.
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Only 4,000 of those excess deaths were in the age range of nought to 60, which includes, of course, small babies.
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The scandal is that there are any excess deaths at all in the winter months.
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That gives the number of excess deaths.
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I understand that about 12,000 people die of flu each winter and that the excess deaths every winter closely follow flu patterns, so people should take their vaccination opportunities.
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Thus, we roughly agree on the number of excess deaths.
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