Number of people left to die at home soared during Covid pandemic, study ...
Number of people left to die at home soared during Covid pandemic with 'markedly decomposed bodies' not found for 'weeks', study reveals Imperial College Healthcare Trust said decomposed bodies were up 70 per cent The timeframe for the rise coincided with the UK's 'stay at home' restrictions 28 per cent of the post-mortems sampled between March 2020 and March 2021 were markedly decomposed compared with 16 per cent in the year before The study also found that 38 per cent more deaths were recorded at home
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The number of people who died and were not found for weeks rose sharply during the pandemic, a study has found.
Post-mortems on 'markedly decomposed' bodies in the UK increased by 70 per cent during the pandemic.
Researchers compared data from the 12 months before and after the implementation of the first national lockdown on March 23 2020.
Every severely decomposed body found at home was someone who live alone, the study by Imperial College's Healthcare Trust has said in their paper.
The findings, published in the Clinical Pathology journal, said that the rise meant tha tmany loved ones were left without substantive answers over causes of death - including potential genetic diseases.
