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Published: August 12, 2022

Excess non-COVID deaths in England and Wales almost 20% higher than average: gov’t data

By The Editor
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Fri Aug 12, 2022 – 9:52 am EDTFri Aug 12, 2022 – 9:53 am EDT

(The Daily Sceptic) – There have been 12,517 excess non-COVID deaths registered in England and Wales in the 14 weeks since April 23rd, according to the latest official data from the Office for National Statistics, released on Tuesday.

In the week ending July 29, the most recent week for which data are available, 11,013 deaths were registered in England and Wales, which is 1,678 (18 percent) above the five-year average for the week. Of these, 810 mentioned COVID-19 on the death certificate as a contributory cause and 531 mentioned COVID-19 as underlying cause, leaving 1,147 deaths from a different underlying cause. Note that this was the week following the brief but intense heatwave (with recorded temperatures topping 40°C [104ºF] for the first time in some areas), so some of these will be heatwave-related deaths, as will many of the additional COVID deaths (being people who happened to have COVID at the time).

At the Daily Sceptic we have been following what appears to be a correlation between the spring fourth-dose booster rollout among over-75s in England and a wave of now over 12,500 non-COVID excess

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