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25 Nov

Scotland: 2021 mortality through week 46 (NRS)
Week 45 was revised up to +21% from the five year average, and Week 46 initially at 11%.
Now 26 consecutive weeks, but good to see a lower number.
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3 Nov

Scotland: 2021 mortality through week 43 (NRS)
1/ Overall
Yet another really high week.
Week 42 was revised up to being +25% from the 5yr average, and this week is +26% (+272 additional deaths). 23rd consecutive week of excess - the longest bad streak on record.

2/ Excess by cause
The majority continues to be non-covid as we’ve been seeing since the start of summer, but ‘covid deaths’ (death by any cause within 28 days of a positive test) making up a sizeable amount, as has been the case recently

2b/ Excess by cause
Breaking this down, we see weekly and cumulative excess for each cause.
Several notable points, especially sharp inflection in heart/stroke from a pre-summer plateau.

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27 Oct

Scotland: 2021 mortality through week 42 (NRS)
1/ Overall
Again a very high week, +252 from the 5 year average, which is 24% excess. Now 22 consecutive weeks of excess mortality, but also where i) it’s summer, and ii) the trend is still elevating.
(2020 included for reference)

1b/ Overall
For context this shows ‘winter mortality’ (weeks 27-42) of each of the last 30 years, ranked. This year 2021-22 is the worst position we’ve seen up until this time of year.

1c/ Overall
Another way to view, is annualising the weekly numbers - this would normally rise into winter, then settle down, with between 0.99% and 1.19% sadly passing away each year.
This 2021-22 period through week 42 is highest, & trending away from the others (getting worse)

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20 Oct

Scotland: 2021 mortality through week 41 (NRS)
1/ Overall
Sadly another high week. Week 40 was revised up (+32% from 5yr), and week 41 was +23%.
Having been below normal in spring, now 21 consecutive weeks not only above the 5 year average, but ever higher above.

2/ Rank
With data context is always critical, and we should be clear neither this (nor indeed 2020) are anything not experienced before. 2021 to date ranks 11th in mortality rate in even the past 30 years. The key is the big rise from last summer.
(No need to mention the 90s!)

3/ Excess mortality by cause
‘Deaths within 28 days of a positive test’ continues to make up a notable proportion of the excess, albeit less than 50%. Those numbers - both total excess and 'with covid’ - are far higher than the corresponding period last year.

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14 Oct

Scotland, PHS Weekly COVID report
Others cover this report so we don’t post much on it, but it is a really interesting resource, and thanks to PHS for bringing it together.
Wanted to put a few observations out there taken up to and including the latest report.

1/ Overall trend
‘Cases’ are heavily skewed by who is tested, but even so cases are now >50% in vaccinated population.
‘Acute covid hospital admissions’ also now >70% vaccinated, and trend *very* clear.
‘Deaths with covid’ remains >80% fully vaccinated

2/ Acute covid hospitalisation
This is key, as the main focus of the vaccine.
Below summarised the *fully* vaccinated and unvaccinated populations, and the hospital admissions from each.
Unvaccinated risk is 1 in 406, and fully vaccinated is 1 in 607.

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13 Oct

Scotland: 2021 mortality through week 40 (NRS)
1/ Overall
Actually shocked to see the jump this week, far above the 5 year average
By some margin this was the highest mortality rate of Week 40, in all the history back to 1974.

2/ Excess mortality by cause of death
Deaths with covid remains a significant proportion, but coming dow. By far the majority of excess mortality continued to be non-covid.

3/ Excess mortality by location of death
Deaths at home the main proportion, but as with recent weeks we continue to have excess mortality in hospital (despite lower than normal admissions to hospital), and last week saw for the first time some excess mortality at care home.

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