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Tuesday, December 20th, 2022, 10:22 am

Office for National Statistics Unable to Publish Statistics That Show Far More Deaths Than Usual

A “dog ate my homework” moment?

After much waiting, and maybe a dozen page refreshes*, we finally get this:

Over the Christmas period we will not be publishing Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales so the next publication will be available on the 5th of January and shall cover the weeks ending 16th and 23rd of December. Due to a processing issue, there has been an undercount of death occurrences in week ending 9th of December. Due to this the figures for week 49 will now be published in the next weekly mortality publication coming out on the 5th of January.

Are these numbers reliable?

Undercount of deaths

Can they blame Microsoft Excel? Either way, vigilant citizens are being left in the dark for about 3 weeks**. How hard can it be to just count death certificates (no classification needed)?

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* I’ve been very eager to see these numbers. We see reports about COVID and hospitalisation surges.
** It’s hard not to feel like they may be ‘hiding’ the dead now (the totals at least). Delaying the information? We have a vaccine crisis, virus crisis, freezing wave etc.

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