FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3045
You asked
1) How many people from the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic have actually had covid-19 listed as there actual or main cause of death without any underlying conditions on the death certificate?
2) How many people have died within a 28 day period or thereafter, after receiving either their first or second vaccination in any of the vaccination. In particular those in the say 18-24 age group?
We said
Thank you for your request.
The mortality data published by ourselves are derived from the formal process of death registration. For Scotland and Northern Ireland statistics, please contact National Records Scotland and NISRA respectively.
COVID- 19 deaths with no pre-existing condition
Deaths from COVID-19 may include cases where the doctor completing the death certificate diagnosed possible cases of COVID-19, for example, where this was based on relevant symptoms but no test for the virus was conducted. Deaths with a positive test are coded using the ICD10 code U0.71 and those with suspected COVID-19, but no test has been conducted are coded with ICD10 U0.72.
We have been producing Pre-existing conditions of people whose death was recorded with an underlying cause of COVID-19, this dataset can be found in section 8 of the Monthly mortality analysis bulletin. This dataset provides a greater insight into the leading pre-existing cause of death groups, for deaths occurring in England and Wales, in 2020 and the first quarter of 2021 that were due to COVID-19.
Please see 'table 1a, row 28 (2020) and row 29 (2021)' for deaths where COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause, but had no other pre-existing conditions recorded on the death certificate, England and Wales. Table 1b represents these figures for England and table 1c figures are for Wales.
This publication will be updated quarterly. COVID-19 deaths involving pre-existing conditions is split by broad age groups between 1-64 and 65+.
Please see below for death registrations for 2020 and 2021 (provisional) that were due to COVID-19 and were recorded without any pre-existing conditions, England and Wales.
2020: 9400 (0-64: 1549 / 65 and over: 7851)
2021 Q1: 6483 (0-64: 1560/ 65 and over: 4923)
2021 Q2: 346 (0-64: 153/ 65 and over: 193)
Deaths after receiving COVID-19 vaccination(s)
Our vaccination statistics are produced from a methodology where deaths occurred within 21 days of receiving a vaccine.
To fulfil this request within 28 days of receiving a vaccine, we would need use a high level of statistical skill and judgement in order to create a bespoke analysis or table. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information in order to respond to requests. We therefore consider this to be information not held.
For deaths involving COVID-19 or all cause deaths after receipt of the COVID-19 vaccination, we hold the following analysis Deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status, England: deaths occurring between 2 January and 2 July 2021 which is an analysis of deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status that occurred between 1 January and 2 July 2021 in England.
This publication includes weekly age standardised mortality rates for deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status and a detailed analysis of deaths involving COVID-19 which occurred in fully vaccinated individuals. This dataset was produced through complex linking of census data to vaccination data held by NHS. We do hold raw data on age, but we have not completed this analysis for the age group you have requested. This is something we are hoping to publish in the release scheduled for 1 November 2021.
If you would like to discuss these statistics further, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.