Given this video and this data, it was interesting to see what proportion of Australian deaths can be connected to COVID-19 (in a mostly COVID-vaccinated population).

Causes of death this year:

COVID-19 deaths over the years:

fter this video I’ve decided to look closely at the underlying data, which was put online a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to know how big an impact could be seen in younger people, knowing that COVID-19 mostly kills old people. At first I found this page:

I then checked about a dozen pages there, but no actual data is being provided (like a download link). Disappointing.

But aihw.gov.au seems like the wrong place to check. abs.gov.au is where the detailed data is. They released some new data along with a summary as follows:

Sadly, they use proprietary Microsoft formats (foreign company that bribes and attacks standards), so I’ve converted all the files to ODF.

I’ve fused together past (historical) data with the first 6 months of this year and here’s what I found:

Younger groups’ deaths data. Those are totals.

The data sliced some more.

Demonstrating high number of deaths.

So it seems skewed towards more excess deaths among people over 45, but among the younger groups deaths have increased as well.

Data

• Provisional Mortality Statistics Jan – Jun 2022
• Deaths by month of occurrence, 2015-21
• Deaths by week of occurrence, 2015-21
• Provisional Mortality Statistics Monthly Dashboard, Jan – Jun 2022
• Provisional Mortality Statistics Weekly Dashboard, Jan – Jun 2022

Published a short while ago.

Published 4 hours ago:

Important visualisation:

Deaths across the UK are very concerning. We’ve not seen numbers like these before. I wrote about it at the start of this week because the trend isn’t limited to summer. The heatwaves cannot be blamed for it. It’s so bad that mortality in my age group rose 10% (yes, 10%!) and now have complete figures for September 2022 (update and released 2 days ago). This is what it looks like.

September 2018 deaths by week in England and Wales:

9,445 9,191 9,305 9,150

September 2019 deaths by week in England and Wales:

9,695 9,513 9,440 9,517

September 2020 deaths by week in England and Wales:

7,739 9,811 9,523 9,634

September 2021 deaths by week in England and Wales:

8,797 11,035 11,009 10,684

September 2022 deaths by week in England and Wales:

10,753 10,673 8,751 10,960

Sum for September per year (note: they break it down by week, not month)
2018: 37091
2019: 38165
2020: 36707
2021: 41525
2022: 41137

As charts:

As spreadsheet (ODF): September deaths (with charts)

Only a ‘COVIDiot’ would say the pandemic is over

Despite fewer tests, things are getting worse.

International trend: