Covid-19: excess all cause mortality in domiciliary care

Piccininni and colleagues show the importance of using excess all cause mortality to measure the impact of covid-19.1 This approach has drawn attention to the shocking rates of covid-19 related deaths in care homes. But domiciliary care remains neglected. In England from 10 April to 8 May, deaths of recipients of domiciliary care were 2.7 times the three year average for that period.2 From 10 April to 1 May (latest available data), deaths of care home residents were 2.8 times or 3.2 times that of …