Anorexia: Coroner s concern over eating disorder deaths under-reporting
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A coroner has spoken of concerns over a possible significant under-reporting of eating disorders following the deaths of five women who had anorexia.
Sean Horstead said in a report there was a lack of robust and reliable data around the illness.
Simon Brown, whose daughter Emma died in 2018, said it laid out some of the key things that have to change .
The Department for Health and Social Care said it was important. everyone gets the mental health support needed.
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WHO’s change in guidance to a full lockdown was all based in China’s success in containing the virus, essentially in just one city, where it originated; Wuhan.
With hindsight that strategy seems all the more extraordinary when we compare the death toll of China with the staggering numbers in the UK and the colossal half a million in the US.
As one prominent Chinese broadcast journalist, who now lives in London, told me, what China did was never going to work in the west.
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