Further digging unearthed a little-known source that has recorded every Covid-related death in Bulgaria since April 2020. My colleagues at Addy Kassova Audience Strategy (AKAS) crunched the data to aggregate it by demographics, and a stark contrast with Britain emerges. Bulgaria’s saving-the-economy approach to vaccination versus the UK’s saving-lives approach have led to vastly differing outcomes for the over-70s. In the week of my father’s death, Bulgaria had the 2nd worst Covid-related mortality rate in the EU while the UK had the fourth lowest death rate in Europe. The UK, where policies also failed elderly people in the first wave, corrected its approach with a vaccination programme anchored in preserving lives.

Source: The Guardian May 20, 2021 05:01 UTC