All deaths within 28 days of receiving a covid 19 vaccination

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Dear Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency,

I would like the information regarding exactly how many people have died within 28 days of receiving a covid 19 vaccination in the United Kingdom..
I have read the yellow card scheme and reported adverse reactions but this says 'Several thousand deaths within 7 days of vaccination deemed natural due to life expectancy and health conditions etc..
I would like the exact figures for exactly how many people have died within 28days of recieving a covid 19 vaccination in the United Kingdom..
I would also like the figures for how many of these people had recieved just one dose of the covid 19 vaccination and how many had recieved both doses of the covid 19 vaccination..

Yours faithfully,

Kristina

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Our Ref: FOI 21/392

Dear Kristina,

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Thank you for your enquiry which we received on 12 April 2021.

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Dear Kristina,

Please find attached the response to your FOI request.

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FOI Team
Vigilance and Risk Management of Medicines Division
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
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Dear Pharmacovigilanceservice,

This does not answer my question.. Like I previously wrote, I have read the government yellow card scheme and it clearly states 'Several THOUSAND deaths' after vaccination that have NOT been included in the yellow card scheme reports..
I would like to know EXACTLY how many??

Yours sincerely,

Kristina

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Yellow Card Mailbox, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency

Dear Kristina,

Our Ref: FOI 21/392
GENQ-00147585: Mortalities with 28 days of receiving a Covid-19 Vaccination

Thank you for your email dated 24 May regarding our original response to FOI 21/392. I am sorry that you felt we did not answer your questions sufficiently, please find the below response to your queries.

In your original enquiry you included the line 'Several thousand deaths within 7 days of vaccination deemed natural due to life expectancy and health conditions etc…’. I believe you are referring to a line in our weekly summary of Yellow Card reporting, the full paragraph states “Part of our continuous analysis includes an evaluation of natural death rates over time, to determine if any specific trends or patterns are occurring that might indicate a vaccine safety concern. Based on age-stratified all-cause mortality in England and Wales taken from the Office for National Statistics death registrations, several thousand deaths are expected to have occurred, naturally, within 7 days of the many millions of doses of vaccines administered so far, mostly in the elderly.” This is an expected number of natural deaths that would have occurred within 7 days if no vaccines had been administered. It is a measure we use to determine if there has been an increase in deaths within the population.

Regarding your questions about the number of people who have died after receiving a Covid-19 vaccination, up to 30 June the MHRA has received 450 UK reports of suspected ADRs to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in which the patient died shortly after vaccination, 960 reports for the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca, 6 for the COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna and 24 where the brand of vaccine was unspecified. The majority of these reports were in elderly people or people with underlying illness. Usage of the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca has increased rapidly and as such, so has reporting of fatal events with a temporal association with vaccination however, this does not indicate a link between vaccination and the fatalities reported. Review of individual reports and patterns of reporting does not suggest the vaccine played a role in the death.

As you may be aware these numbers only relate to cases where the reporter had a suspicion the vaccine may have played a part in the passing of the patient. For the total number of deaths, I would encourage you to contact the office of national statistics. However I was able to find a similar question and response that has already been posted on their website here Deaths with 28 days of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine and deaths within 28 days of being diagnosed with influenza - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk). In summary they are working on an analysis on all aspects of the relationship between COVID-19 vaccination and mortality, which will be published in June and as such, this information is considered 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. Once they have finalised these plans a publication date will be announced on their Release Calendar.

Thank you again for your enquiry and I hope that you find this information useful.

Yours sincerely,

David Sullivan
Vigilance and Risk Management of Medicines

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