Dec 16Th, the UK Office for National Statistics responded to a FOI request asking a simple question: “Can you advise on deaths purely from COVID with no underlying causes?”
The answer was surprising – not just for the numbers, but also for the fact that this data set, updated every couple of months, has been available to doctors, epidemiologists, data scientists, and public health policymakers all along. Maybe they ignored it. Or worse yet, maybe they knew exactly what it said and led us on unneeded paths that blatantly ignored it.
Today, around 139.700 people in England and Wales have been killed by COVID. However, 17,371 were people under any age and had no comorbidities as of Q3 2021
It is 12.4%. All COVID deaths occurred in England and Wales. Of those 17371 deaths, 78% were fatal. 13 597 people were 65 or older.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, until Q3 2021, only 3,774 of the people in England and Wales who succumbed to COVID-19 were healthy individuals with zero comorbidities under the age of 65 – approx. 2.7 percent. 2.7 percent of all deaths due to COVID-19 in England and Wales.
What’s more astonishing is that unlike US data from the CDC – where, for some reason, collecting information on comorbidities has proven impossible, for no good reason at all – the English data sets also give a breakdown of what comorbidities are associated with COVID deaths. It isn’t quite what you’d think.
Most deaths in 2020 had one or two comorbidities. The leading comorbidities mostly included diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, hypertension, and chronic heart and pulmonary diseases – many of which, though not exclusive to the elderly, are overall more frequent among older populations. This trend continued in 2021 with more patients dying of comorbid diabetic complications than in the past, but less deaths from dementia.
Another interesting aspect of this data is the fact that COVID has been causing a significant drop in deaths among healthy individuals under 65 since Q2 2021. This is because COVID has been incredibly reduced since vaccinations were widely accepted by the public. The correlation is only a time-dependent one. We don’t have any data on the number of deceased, healthy people who were either vaccinated, not vaccinated, partially vaccinated, etc. However, the drop in death rates between Q1, Q2 and Q3 2021 is quite significant.
Given that this data set has been available since the beginning of the pandemic, there are two possibilities – the data set was either seen but ignored, or it wasn’t even on the radar of those making public health policy. It is reasonable to assume that the data was actually seen by policymakers, regardless of how COVID policies are ultimately defended. So why then, after abjectly failing to protect the elderly in 2020, did they go on to enact public health policy that had wide-ranging, life-altering impacts on the entire under-65 population of the UK with all the evidence that healthy individuals were at marginal risk – when it was already too late to protect many of the elderly? This was too little, too late and also way too many and the wrong time.
Moreover, this data set has been available since 2020 – raising questions about the media’s failure to respond and report on it. Where is the media – whether in the UK, the US, or indeed any Western country – reporting these groundbreaking new insights into the pandemic that have been most recently released over a month ago by the Office of National Statistics?
The CDC should be ashamed for failing to not only collect the data correctly, but for also not caring about it.
The press has been busy lambasting Boris Johnson’s ill-considered party in 10 Downing Street, ascribing his turn towards easing pandemic restrictions to an attempt of currying favor with the electorate after getting caught. But what if that’s not it? Many politicians, all over the world, including in the US and the UK, have been found living a ‘laws for me, but not for thee’ lifestyle – with no repercussions. What if that’s not what was behind the actions of the British government?
What if, perhaps, people are finally starting to look at the data they should have been looking at, to begin with, and are now having that collective ‘oh s––t’ moment?
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