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Please can you provide an up to date weekly time series for England (or E&W) of COVID-19 deaths that additionally mention one of the below on the death cert:
Pneumonia (J09-J18) WITHOUT ARDS
ARDS (J80) WITHOUT Pneumonia
COVID-19 only (no manifestation)
In essence, a COVID-19 week no. table with a Pneumonia/Influenza mentions column, an ARDS mentions column, and a COVID-19 with no manifestations column
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We are responsible for the production of Mortality data for England and Wales, this is driven by information collected from the death certificate at death registration.
COVID-19 only
We have been producing the following publication in response to COVID-19: Deaths involving COVID-19, England and Wales. This publication provides a greater insight into the leading underlying causes of death groups for deaths occurring in England and Wales between March and June 2020. Figures for COVID-19 deaths with no underlying health conditions are available on Table 5. This means where no other underlying condition was listed on the death certificate. Please see the figures below:
- No pre-existing condition: England and Wales - 4476
- No pre-existing condition: England - 4169
- No pre-existing condition: Wales -294
Provisional monthly death registration data for England and Wales, broken down by sex, age and country are now available in this monthly publication: Monthly mortality analysis, England and Wales. This publication contains data from July onwards and includes deaths due to COVID-19 and leading causes of death. This can be found in Table 11.
We are no longer publishing monthly COVID deaths with details around the death such as pre-existing conditions or no underlying cause due to the decrease in the number of COVID-19 related deaths. Whilst the number of infections appear to be rising, the number of COVID-19 deaths from July onwards are very small and poses a disclosure risk, making it entirely possible to identify individual records.
Pneumonia
We have provisional data available from March to June 2020 grouped for both **'Influenza and Pneumonia' (J09 -- J18). **This can also be found in Table 5 of 'Deaths involving COVID-19, England and Wales' and Table 11 of the 'Monthly mortality analysis'.
- Influenza and pneumonia: England and Wales - 4582
- Influenza and pneumonia: England - 4426
- Influenza and pneumonia: Wales - 147
ARDS (J80)
The 'Deaths involving COVID-19' dataset above captures a larger range of leading causes of death. Pulmonary oedema and other interstitial pulmonary diseases (J80-J84) appears is listed in the leading cause groups on Table 1. Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome falls within this grouping. However, this does not appear as a leading cause in the 'monthly mortality analysis'. We do not currently have this cause of death (J80) published on its own. Complete mortality data for 2020 will be available in July 2021.
We have published Death registrations not involving coronavirus (COVID-19): England and Wales, which includes figures for underlying cause and leading causes between 28 December 2019 to 10 July 2020. This also includes Pulmonary oedema and other interstitial pulmonary diseases (J80-J84) on Tables 1 and 3.
We do have published mortality data available for years prior to 2020, for the years 2013-2019. This is available as part of our explorable dataset available on our NOMIS webservice.
Select the geography (England and Wales, regional or by local authority).
- Select Age - All ages or 5-year age bands.
- Select Gender - Total or Male/Female
- Select rates - All deaths, rates or percentage of population for example.
- Select cause of death (ICD10 code search is available). (J80)
- Select format (Excel or CSV for example)
If you would like to discuss these statistics further, please feel free to get in touch via email at Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.