Brexit was dumb.

That said this sounds like an overstatement.

We average between 550k to 600k deaths a year. So 1.5k is well under 0.3%.

Add the fact it is almost impossible to put such deaths down to 1 cause. They were after allin NHS care.

And it very much sounds like the usual press over enthusiastic support for a small comment in the data. Not something clearly identified by the study authors.