Obiter on official output; only one...

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On 22nd Jan you get 22 months of data on the actual deaths in the UK (from 1st Feb 2020 to Dec 31st 2021) from Covid ONLY. You have probably seen this by now...or maybe not, Freedom of Information request to UK gov: 

FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3368 [LINK] 

You asked: 

Q. Please supply deaths caused solely by covid 19, where covid is the only cause of death listed on the death certificate, broken down by age group and gender between feb 2020 up to and including dec 2021. [sic]

A. The numbers are supplied in the image below, of the table supplied HERE.

Q. Please supply the number of autopsies carried out on those where covid was the only cause stated. 

A. We do not hold analysis on the number of post-mortems completed. However, we can create analysis on deaths involving post-mortems in 2020 and 2021 as a custom output. 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 health.data@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.

Yep...you're not wrong, your eyes are not deceiving you: deaths below age 30: 23, that is twenty three, not in hundreds or thousands, i.e. a tad over one per month. Deaths below 50 years of age: 317...etc. 

Yes, yes, meaningless really and we mustn't insinuate that deaths of other illnesses plus Covid should be ignored, plus with changes to the rules to facilitate the fast and uncorroborated filling out of death certificates and cremation authorisations etc., we will never really know how many were killed by our government or not...well you would have thought this might be 'on the news' but hey ho. 

Update: not quite sure why or what the difference is HERE (ONS UK Gov) where the total is 17,371. Still extremely low and below all the shouty media numbers but very different: "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) 

2021 Q3: 1142 (0-64: 512/ 65 and over: 630)