FOI/2021/2741
You asked
Please supply the following information:
How many people who have had both COVID-19 vaccinations are hospitalised in each age group?
How many die, in each age group?
Of those who die, how many had no 'underlying health conditions'?
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
Unfortunately, we do not hold information on hospital admissions and discharges. NHS Digital may be better placed to answer your query. They can be contacted via email at enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk, and by telephone at 0300 303 5678.
Deaths involving the COVID-19 vaccination:
You can find the number of deaths involving COVID-19 (not restricted to first or second vaccination) in table 12 of our Monthly Mortality Analysis dataset, these include figures for deaths involving adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccination. There are currently 4 deaths registered with the aligning ICD-10 codes for this (U12.9). However, should this change, they will be updated in this table. The latest data available is at the moment is for June 2021. This publication is updated monthly.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide further disaggregations of this data, such as by age and underlying health conditions, as this would produce very low numbers and would be considered disclosive. Section 39 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (SRSA) renders it an offence to disclose information held by the Statistics Board for statistical purposes that would identify an individual or a body corporate. As we are prohibited by law from publishing statistics in which individuals can be identified, we find that Section 44 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies. Section 44 is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.
However, you may be interested to know that we are currently working on analysis on a number of aspects of the relationship between COVID-19 vaccination and mortality, including:
Information regarding deaths after 28 days of vaccination, from any cause.
Information regarding deaths involving or due to COVID-19 after receiving COVID-19 vaccination.
This requires complex analysis linking vaccination records to death registrations. The provisional release date for these publications is 13 September 2021. Once publication dates are finalised, they will be announced on our Release Calendar.
If you have any further enquiries, please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.