Not only is it a well written article and (for some anyway), an eye opener, but it highlights a significant fault in a BMJ article on the subject.
An extract to wet your appetite.
“The population of England and Wales is 6.26 times larger than that of Belarus, … Or to phrase this data another way, if England and Wales had the same excess death rate as Belarus, there would have been 19,711 fewer deaths over the period.”