![Coffee House Shots artwork](https://is4-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts113/v4/1d/96/1b/1d961b7a-fa67-7f7b-113d-d5042c3419e2/mza_7757355449512797407.jpg/100x100bb.jpg)
What's behind the excess deaths statistics?
Coffee House Shots
English - August 01, 2020 09:00 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MB - ★★★★ - 134 ratingsNews Government Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Boris Johnson pauses lockdown easing
Next Episode: Can 'Eat Out to Help Out' save the restaurant industry?
Statistics released this week showed that England had the worst excess death rate in Europe during the first half of 2020. Katy Balls speaks to Kate Andrews and Carl Heneghan, professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University about what's behind the numbers.
Subscribe to the Spectator's first podcast newsletter here and get each week's podcast highlights in your inbox every Tuesday.