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@ActuaryByDay
Sep 22, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Latest ONS deaths data (to week ending 11 September) has been released.

505 more deaths were recorded in-week compared to the 5-year average.

Year to date there have been 14% more deaths than the 5-year average (2015-19). Image
There are 99 deaths where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate this week, but there were also more deaths from other causes compared to the 5-year average.

Numbers are for England and Wales only and are 11-17 days old.
Non-COVID deaths were 4% above the 5-year average.

Some of the additional deaths recorded will certainly have been catchup from last week, when we saw significantly less deaths recorded than normal as a result of Bank Holiday registry office closures.
This week is the first time we’ve seen an increase in deaths where COVID-19 was on the death certificate since 17 April.

Last week’s 78 COVID deaths were artificially low due to the Bank Holiday. I wonder whether it will prove to be the low point as deaths begin to rise again?
The best way to compare 2020 to earlier years is to examine age-standardised death rates.

Comparing death counts can be distorted by age & growth of the population.

The CMI report on this basis and their next planned report is due on 6 Oct. Here is last week’s summary👇

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Oct 12, 2024
This is what 180 years of progress looks like!

I've reproduced and updated this beautiful chart from @OurWorldInData showing life expectancy in England and Wales at different ages, since 1841.

The data largely speaks for itself but I'll make a few brief observations. 🧵 Image
Most of the life expectancy gain is due to large reductions in infant and child mortality rates.

Progress reducing mortality has been made at all ages, but it's the youngest ages where most progress has been made. There's no longer a big difference between LE at birth vs age 10.
The data source in the chart upthread is the total population of England and Wales, which includes military deaths. So the first downward spike results from deaths during WW1 as well as the Spanish Flu. WW2 deaths are also very visible during the 1940s.
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Jul 3, 2024
I've drawn some heat from anti-vaxx accounts recently. Some just spit obvious lies and hatred, and are quickly blocked. Perhaps more dangerous though are the ones who share bogus data and analysis, that some might not immediately be able to see though. Let's talk about "Ben". Image
My re-examination of the BMJ Public Health data showed that countries with higher vaccination rates had lower excess deaths, and vice versa. This doesn't prove cause and effect but it's an obvious issue that the authors failed to address.
"Ben" responded to my post with a link to a chart from his own self-published "study" which he claims shows no such relationship in counties of Montana.

So what might be the differences between the countries shown in my analysis and the counties shown in his? Image
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Jun 8, 2024
I’m late to this but I wanted to set out some thoughts on the awful @BMJPublicHealth excess deaths article.

Commentary has focussed on media coverage, linking deaths to vaccines, but I want to discuss the article itself, which should not have been published in its current form. Image
That is not to let @Telegraph @NewYorkPost and others who misreported this off the hook entirely. Reckless reporting has done considerable harm, going well beyond what was claimed in the paper.

More lives will be lost as misinformation fuels vaccine hesitancy. Image
But as I said below, when @bmj_company distanced itself from media misreporting, this was always going to happen. It's all very well to say the 'study' doesn't establish a link between excess deaths and vaccines, but it's full of inappropriate insinuation.
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Feb 25, 2024
There’s a lot of confusion about the new ONS excess deaths methodology. Some thoughts on the model, its limitations and #ExcessDeaths in general.

These are personal views. I don’t speak for ONS or any other organisations or individuals involved in updating the method. 1/17
Firstly, neither the new method nor the 5-year average it replaces, were designed for measuring the impact of a multi-year pandemic on mortality.

I’ve said this before but it bears repeating. 2/17
The first question to ask about excess deaths (or excess anything!) is 'excess over what?'

The new method gives the excess over mortality expected at the start of the year. So expectations for 2024 reflect the fact that we've seen higher mortality rates since the pandemic. 3/17
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Dec 4, 2023
Our new commentary published in @LancetRH_Europe discusses the ongoing excess deaths in the UK, and for the first time provides granular analysis by age, place and cause.

Excess deaths now highest for middle-aged adults, driven by cardiovascular causes.
thelancet.com/journals/lanep…
Excess deaths arise directly and indirectly from the Covid pandemic. This includes:
- increased pressure on NHS urgent care services, resulting in poorer patient outcomes
- direct effects of Covid-19 infection
- disruption to chronic disease prevention, detection and management.
Newly published data from @OHID shows that, from June 2022 to June 2023, excess deaths were highest for ages 50-64, at 15% above normal.

In comparison, excess deaths were 11% higher than expected for under 25s and 25-49s, and were 9% higher for over 65s.
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Oct 6, 2023
This week the CMI released an international comparison of excess mortality during the coronavirus pandemic (using data up to end 2022).

England & Wales (E&W) had the 3rd highest excess mortality of Western European and Nordic comparators, since the start of the pandemic. Image
Austria and Italy are the only Western European and Nordic countries analysed with higher excess mortality than E&W since the start of the pandemic.

The Western European and Nordic countries analysed with the lowest excess mortality are Norway and Sweden. Image
When compared to all countries analysed, E&W had the 9th highest excess mortality since the start of the pandemic.

Bulgaria had highest, followed by Poland and USA.

New Zealand (NZ), Australia and Norway have the lowest excess.

NZ mortality has been lower than pre-pandemic! Image
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