HAVE just checked this morning’s ONS numbers, which were released only minutes ago.

In Week 45 of this year there were 11,489 registered deaths in England and Wales:

Before COVID-19 it was an average of 10,142 for that week, so we’re still looking at almost 15% increase, i.e. same as last week.

John spoke about excess deaths around the world yesterday (less than 24 hours ago).

Description and citations below in case Google intercepts his video/s again (for merely reporting facts).

Iceland halts Moderna jabs over heart-inflammation fears

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-iceland-halts-moderna-jabs-heart-inflammation.html

Iceland suspended Moderna anti-COVID vaccine

Chief Epidemiologist Þórólfur Guðnason

https://www.icelandreview.com/news/moderna-use-on-pause-in-iceland/

Iceland will halt the use of Moderna vaccine

Decision was made after reviewing new data from the Nordic countries,

which shows an increased incidence of myocarditis,

as well as pericarditis

Decision was announced on website of the Directorate of health

https://island.is/um-embaettid/frettir/frett/item47717/Notkun-COVID-19-boluefnis-Moderna-a-Islandi

"the increased incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis after vaccination with the Moderna vaccine, as well as with vaccination using Pfizer/BioNTech,"

Sweden

Currently restricts Moderna to people individuals born after 1991.

Norway and Denmark

Recommend against Moderna for children aged 12 – 17.

https://island.is/en

https://island.is/um-embaettid/frettir/frett/item47717/Notkun-COVID-19-boluefnis-Moderna-a-Islandi

https://www.covid.is/covid-19-vaccine

Finland halts Moderna vaccinations for young men

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-finland-halts-moderna-vaccinations-young.html

Mika Salminen, director of the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Finnish health authorities, stop giving Moderna to young men,

over fears of heart inflammation side effects.

Moderna "should not be given to men and boys under 30 years of age for the time being."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/overview-COVID-19-vaccines.html

Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines

billions of vaccines administered globally, demonstrates that they are safe and effective.

Side Effects

Side effects throughout the body (such as fever, chills, tiredness, and headache) are more common after the second dose of a Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, or Novavax COVID-19 vaccine.

Adverse Events

Severe allergic reactions to vaccines are rare but can happen.

There is a rare risk of myocarditis and pericarditis associated with mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, mostly among males ages 12–39 years.

Stay Up to Date with COVID-19 Vaccines

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html

‘ve just noticed that the mortality figures published by ONS a few minutes ago (I kept refreshing the page as these data releases only come once a week, usually at 9:30AM) reaffirm my suspicion.

Pre-COVID-19:

Latest week on record (new):

An increase of more than 1,200 people, per week.

‘VE just checked this morning’s new batch of data from ons.gov.uk. Open the latest file in this page, then compare to 2019, which they make difficult to find.

We’re talking about 7% or so more deaths. It’s also this bad (or worse) in other rich countries and Finland’s government (health authority) reports that about 20% of hospital patients are there for COVID-19.

What have we solved really?

In the news today:

• Covid and flu patient numbers in hospitals grow

  The spread of Covid-19 is seasonally increasing in Latvia, with more and more patients also ending up in hospitals. Similarly, circulation of type A influenza virus has started and the intensity of flu spread is slightly increasing, according to last week’s monitoring data of the Disease Prevention and Control Center (SPKC).

2 weeks ago:

Description in case they take down the video (as they often do):

Our world in data

ourworldindata.org/

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-average-baseline

ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid

Excess mortality is a term used in epidemiology and public health that refers to the number of deaths from all causes during a crisis above and beyond what we would have expected to see under ‘normal’ conditions

Excess deaths =
Reported deaths – Expected deaths

https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid#excess-mortality-our-data-sources

The Human Mortality Database is maintained by a team of researchers based at the University of California, Berkeley, USA and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany.

N the year 2019, especially towards the end of that year, COVID-19 was already spreading around the world (and out of China). By this point 4 years ago many people had already been infected. Looking back at what what ONS released yesterday morning, I can see that England and Wales weekly death data for week 42 are now 10.4k or more. Pre-COVID-19 the average was 9.6k, thus an almost 10% increase.

Over time, as medicine improves and treatments become better, we expect the numbers not to go up per capita, so population increases alone might play a role in any substantial increases in mortality. Did the British population explode by 10% in less than a decade? No.

So what is going on?