Increased Drinking During Lockdown Could Potentially Cause 25,000 Excess Deaths in the UK: Study

New research shows pandemic drinking will lead to more deaths. Johnny Green/PA

A new UK study has found that heavy drinking increased during the lockdowns during the CCP virus pandemic and the increased costs to NHS England are expected to cast a “long shadow.”

The study developed by the University of Sheffield for NHS England found that lockdown and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus pandemic may lead to thousands of extra hospital admissions, deaths, and cases of disease over the next 20 years.

Billions From Additional Alcohol Consumption

The team looked at five alternative scenarios for how alcohol consumption may develop from 2022 onwards. In a best-case scenario, where all drinkers return to their 2019 levels of drinking this year, there would still be an extra 42,677 hospital admissions and 1,830 deaths over 20 years due to alcohol.