FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3382
You asked
How many people have received their 3rd vaccination dose?
How many people have not received any doses of the Covid-19 vaccinations?
How many vaccinated people died infected with Sars COV 2 compare to unvaccinated, from 01.09.2021? (Please sort it by month)
How many vaccinated people got infected with Sars COV 2 compare to unvaccinated, from 01.09.2021? (Please sort it by month)
How many vaccinated people got infected with Omicron variant compere to unvaccinated?
How many vaccinated people got vaccine adverse reaction after COVID-19 vaccine in age group 5-11 years old, 12-15 years old and 16-18 years old? If there is any list, please give me link?
How many people got vaccine in age group 5-11 years old, 12-15 years old and 16-18 years old?
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Thank you for your request.
Infections
The Office for National Statistics COVID-19 Infection Survey (CIS) is a household survey. Our statistics refer to the number of current COVID-19 infections within the population living in private residential households. We exclude those in hospitals, care homes and/or other communal establishments. In communal establishments, rates of COVID-19 infection are likely to be different.
The information you have requested on the number of people who have received a first dose, second dose, and third dose or booster vaccine is available from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA, formerly Public Health England) on the gov.uk coronavirus dashboard. More information on official vaccination estimates can be found in COVID-19 weekly announced vaccinations reports or you can contact UKHSA via email at informationrights@ukhsa.gov.uk.
The information you have requested regarding infections by vaccination status is also available from UKHSA via their COVID-19 surveillance reports. The relevant figure is on page 36 (23 December 2021, week 51). Data for previous surveillance time periods can be found in the back series of surveillance reports at the same link. Please pay attention to the note accompanying the figures.
In the context of very high vaccine coverage in the population, even with a highly effective vaccine, it is expected that a large proportion of cases, hospitalisations and deaths would occur in vaccinated individuals, simply because a larger proportion of the population are vaccinated than unvaccinated and no vaccine is 100% effective. Please also note that the figures are weekly cases rather than daily.
You can find information on vaccine effectiveness against the Omicron variant after second and third vaccine doses in UKHSA's COVID-19 surveillance reports. The relevant figure is on page 14 (23 December 2021, week 51).
We have not produced analysis on the number of infections with the Omicron variant by vaccination status. This could be requested via our bespoke services but would only be estimates based on the CIS sample. Such services would be subject to legal frameworks, disclosure controls, resources, and agreement of costs. If you would like to request this bespoke dataset, please contact Infection.Survey.Analysis@ons.gov.uk to discuss your enquiry further. Please note, there may be a charge for this work which would be subject to our charging policy. Alternatively, if you are interested in accessing the microdata for this survey, you can apply to be an accredited researcher with the secure research service (SRS), details of which can be found via the following link: Research Project Accreditation. Once you have become an accredited researcher, you can make a project application to access the microdata.
The information you have requested on vaccine uptake by age group is available in UKHSA's COVID-19 weekly announced vaccinations datasets. Please note that vaccination uptake is provided for the age groups 12-15, 16-17, and 18-24. For more information, you can contact UKHSA via email at informationrights@ukhsa.gov.uk.
Further information and an overview of data about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic from the Office for National Statistic (ONS) and other sources can be found in our Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest insights tool.
Deaths
The Office for National Statistics do not hold data on adverse reactions from vaccines by age group. Your query may be better addressed by UKHSA who can be contacted email at informationrights@ukhsa.gov.uk.
We hold the following analysis Deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status, England which is an analysis of deaths involving COVID-19 and all cause deaths by vaccination status that occurred between 1 January and 31 October 2021 in England. The data are for England only, as vaccinations data for Wales is not yet available to be linked to the mortality dataset and the Public Health Data Access covers England only.
Table 5 of this publication shows monthly age-standardised mortality rates by age-group and vaccination status for deaths involving COVID-19 from January to October 2021.
A further release is provisionally scheduled for February 2022, final date of publication will be announced on Release Calendar.
As such, the information you have requested for November and December is exempt under Section 22(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, whereby information is exempt from release if there is a view to publish the information in the future. Furthermore, as a central government department and producer of official statistics, we need to have the freedom to be able to determine our own publication timetables. This is to allow us to deal with the necessary preparation, administration and context of publications. It would be unreasonable to consider disclosure when to do so would undermine our functions.
This exemption is subject to a public interest test. We recognise the desirability of information being freely available and this is considered by ONS when publication schedules are set in accordance with the Code of Practice for Statistics. The need for timely data must be balanced against the practicalities of applying statistical skill and judgement to produce the high quality, assured data needed to inform decision-making. If this balance is incorrectly applied, then we run the risk of decisions being based on inaccurate data which is arguably not in the public interest. This will have an impact on public trust in official statistics in a time when accuracy of official statistics is more important to the public than ever before.