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Our Reference: FOI/2022/3778

Dear Rudi,

Thank you for your request.

I am writing to confirm that the Office for National Statistics has now
completed its search for the information which you requested and the
response can be found here:

You asked:

FOI Reference: FOI/2022/3778

I am deeply worried and curious about vaccine injustices and deaths, and I
would therefore like the numbers for vaccine deaths and natural deaths who
dies with no underlying issues ie deaths from the jab versus deaths of
healthy folks who weren't already sick or dying?

Our response:

Thank you for your request.

Deaths involving the COVID-19 vaccination

Our data is derived from the death certificate, using information received
at the point of death registration.  For the vaccine to be mentioned on
the death certificate the medical professional certifying the death must
have believed, to the best of their knowledge, that the vaccine was part
of the events that led to the death. Deaths reported as due to or
involving the COVID-19 vaccination are recorded using ICD-10 code U12.9.
We do not receive information on the brand of vaccination administered.

We report deaths attributed to adverse reaction to the COVID-19
vaccination monthly within our [1]Monthly Mortality Analysis. The latest
data available is December 2021.

There are currently 15 deaths registered in England and Wales with the
aligning ICD codes for this, 10 of these deaths have ICD-10 U12.9 as the
underlying cause.

Due to the small numbers involved, we are unable to provide further
disaggregation of this data to show only those who died with no
pre-existing conditions. We would be unable to provide this requested
data, as this granular level of data produces low numbers, which cause a
disclosure risk.  We are prohibited by law from publishing statistics in
which individual businesses or persons can be identified. This includes
disclosure of information that can be linked with other information in the
public domain to identify an individual. [2]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. As we are prohibited by law from publishing
statistics in which individuals can be identified, we find that Section 44
of the [3]Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies. [4]Section 44 is
an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test
needs to be applied.

However, please note that these are deaths across all age groups since the
rollout of the vaccination in December 2020 and there are no deaths
registered under the age of 35.

This data will be updated for January 2022 on 23 February 2022.

More information regarding the difference in ONS data to Yellow Card
scheme data can be found in this blog. [5]How many people have died as a
result of a COVID-19 vaccine? | National Statistical (ons.gov.uk)

For further information please contact [6][email address]

Vaccine Deaths- Non COVID

Please see responses to previously answered FOIs relating to vaccine
related deaths (but not involving the COVID-19 vaccination):

[7]Deaths due to Swine flu vaccine - Office for National Statistics
(ons.gov.uk)

[8]Adverse reactions and deaths due to every vaccination in the UK -
Office for National Statistics

[9]UK deaths and adverse reactions due to COVID-19 and UK annual death
figures from all vaccines from 2000-2020 - Office for National Statistics

Please note the data provided here are not specifically those who have
died due an adverse reaction to the vaccine with no pre-existing
conditions. This information would need to be extracted as a bespoke
output.

Special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales
are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control,
resources and agreements of [10]costs, where appropriate).  

Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and
should be made to: [11][email address].

You have the right to have this response to your Freedom of Information
request reviewed internally by an internal review process and, if you
remain unhappy with the decision, by the Information Commissioner. If you
would like to have the decision reviewed please email the Freedom of
Information Team at ‘[ONS request email]’ or write to The FoI Team, Room
1100, Office for National Statistics, Segensworth Road, Titchfield PO15
5RR, and mark your correspondence "Internal Review".

If you have any queries about this email, please contact the Freedom of
Information Team ('[ONS request email]').

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

The Freedom of Information Team

Office for National Statistics

For information on Coronavirus, please visit [12]ONS.gov.uk/coronavirus

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