UK ONS Updates English Dataset after 1 day

The ONS, hast just corrected two major errors in their dataset.

While working on the data yesterday, I noticed several problems. I have informed ONS via e-mail:

In addition to that, there’s also a discrepancy in the totals between Table 1 and 5, which would make it at least six dedicated problems.

This morning, they’ve responded to me:

They also issued a new dataset, and they’ve added a disclaimer, indicating that they’ve just fixed one of the six problems:

So nothing major has actually changed in the data, except, going from this chart:

… to this chart:

So now it’s as clear as it gets: The excess mortality is rising, while COVID-19 attribution is declining. Therefor the claimed vaccination efficacy by ONS themselves, might simply rely on a statistical fallacy, by under attributing the ‘vaccinated COVID-19 deaths’, and therefore creating the illusion, that less vaccinated people are dying from COVID-19. Instead, they likely die from other causes, which should be investigated!

Sources & Calculations

All calculations are done in the R language and are available open source here.