Office of National Statistics (ONS) data that does not fit the narrative
Office of National Statistics (ONS) data that does not fit the narrative
I recently came across some interesting data published by the ONS at the end of last year. This was a study clearly designed to examine the efficacy of the vaccines although this was not openly stated. It was entitled “Comparisons of all-cause mortality between European countries and regions: 28 December 2019 to week ending 1 July 2022”. This publication examined the relative age standardised mortality rate (ASMR) for two periods during the pandemic for 33 European countries. The first period (week 1 2020 to week 24 2021) was selected to examine ASMR prior to the impact of the vaccine. The second equivalent period (week 25 2021 to week 26 2022) was added for comparison presumably to demonstrate the impact of the vaccination program on mortality as the primary health indicator. Here is the data taken directly from this study;
The numbers above represent the percentage change relative to the average for the same time period for 2015 to 2019 and are adjusted for the aging of the population. Consequently, a negative value indicates an improvement in mortality and a positive value a decline. For the nett percentage change column, a negative value means that there was an increase in mortality after the vaccination program.
For the 33 countries examined there is an average increase (-0.25%) in mortality when comparing the period prior to the vaccination program and the period after. Given that the initial period of the pandemic did have an impact on the vulnerable there should have been a nett reduction in mortality even without the benefit of the vaccine. There was also the emergence of the less lethal Omicron variant. On this basis for Europe, it is safe to say that there was no mortality benefit from the vaccines. This absence of benefit was not discussed in this publication or in the main stream media.`
In addition, this data also shows that 7 out of the 33 counties had a nett improvement in mortality compared with 2015 to 2019 during both time periods. This fact undermines the deadly fear narrative that was widely communicated by the WHO and most countries around the world.
The ONS article could have also examined if there was any correlation with specific country vaccination levels, stringency index (lockdowns, masks etc) but chose not to? I have performed this exercise and there is no obvious correlation.
In fairness to the ONS there is some fascinating and extensive data available in this publication and I will explore this in another article.
The original ONS data and further details are available using the following link;