Flu largely disappeared during 2020 and 2021, giving rise to ideas among some sceptics that it was being missed and wrongly classified as Covid. However, influenza surveillance data confirm that it really did vanish.
The trouble with waiting 21 days after the jab to count someone as vaccinated is that it can make even a placebo appear to have 95% vaccine efficacy, say Prof Norman Fenton and Prof Martin Neil.
Is London's Newham really home to a higher proportion of trans people than Brighton? That’s what the latest ONS data suggest. Prof. Michael Briggs checked the Government’s maths and finds this “scarcely credible”.
Excess deaths were back this week after a five-week hiatus – but they only disappeared due to ONS trickery in including high pandemic deaths in the baseline.
In a new ONS report on vaccine effectiveness, the statistics agency finds that even after adjustments the vaccinated die of non-Covid 50% less than the unvaccinated and admits this means its estimates are unreliable.
The new ONS data on deaths by vaccination status seem to have a bias such that deaths in the unvaccinated are more likely to be included, whereas deaths in the vaccinated and are more likely to be excluded.
The new official data on deaths by vaccination status in England were released on Tuesday and they show the vaccinated over-represented in all-cause mortality in all age groups for most of 2021 and all of 2022.
Lockdowns were responsible for thousands of alcohol deaths, new ONS data show, as the rate rises 27% on pre-pandemic levels.
Many are concerned about the high number of deaths that occurred in 2022, particularly from heart-related causes. But some have suggested these were just due to an ageing population. This is wrong.
The U.K. Statistics Regulator has said that the official ONS data on "deaths by vaccination status" are biased towards the vaccines and should not be used to assess vaccine effectiveness or safety.
