A FOI request to the Office For National Statistics (ONS) in the UK shows that just under 1 out of every 7 Covid deaths counted in the UK had Covid listed as the sole cause of death.
Out of the 137,133 deaths recorded within 28 days of a positive Covid 19 test in England and Wales, less than 1 out of every 7 were due to Covid alone. The period covered was from the beginning of the pandemic up to the end of September 2021.
17,371 of these recorded deaths had no other underlying condition or comorbidity. For every death where Covid was the sole cause, there were 7.9 other deaths attributed to Covid.
The data was broken down into 2020 and the first three quarters of 2021. The majority of deaths were amongst the elderly. The results were as follows:
This statistic correlates with other reports that up to 95% of Covid deaths had 4 or more other comorbidities. A CDC report from December 2020 mention that only 6% of Covid deaths had no comorbidities.
The average age of death from Covid in 2021 was 82.5 years.
It should be mentioned that Covid-19 could have be the final straw that killed a person who has other chronic or terminal illnesses, and that they might live longer if they had not contacted Covid.
Relating to this though, the statistics on the average age of a Covid death give us some context, because if we look at the average age of death a person who dies of Covid (according to the official figures) and compare it to the average age of death, it shows that men who died of the coronavirus had a reduction in their life span of 7 weeks.
It throws up the odd statistic that women who died of Covid actually had an increased average life span of 0.5 weeks.
The average life expectancy in 2020 was 79.0 years for men, and 82.9 years for women.
The statistics for that estimate were drawn from the most up to date and relevant published statistics from the UK’s office for national statistics. They are collected from a number of different surveys and have overlapping time periods, which are not always the exact same period of time. For instance the average life expectancy is over the 3 year period 2018-2020, and the period we are looking at covid deaths for is 2020 and quarters 1-3 of 2021.
The FOI request on the number of deaths with Covid as the sole cause of mortality, was made at the end of last year and covered all Covid deaths in 2020 and the 1st to 3rd quarter of 2021. The UK government website, which provided the statistics for England and Wales, issued the FOI request and provided their response.
The request as worded on the ONS site was: “Please can you advise on deaths purely from covid with no other underlying causes.”
In their statement the statistics office stated “We are responsible for the production of mortality data for England and Wales, this is derived from death certificates in the process of death registration.”
There has been an increase of deaths from all causes over the period. Excess deaths during the entire period 13 March 2020 to 7 January 2022, England and Wales was 127,704 excess deaths above the five-year average.
Whether the excess deaths were all or mostly due to Covid is a matter of dispute. The failure of the health service to keep up its basic functions has been criticised and accounts for a decline in diagnostic appointments and rise in heart disease.
Professor Karol Sikora, of the University of Buckingham, an Oncologist who is a former head of the WHO cancer programme, estimates that there has been an extra 50,000 deaths from cancer over the past 18 months. These are cancer patients who were not diagnosed at an early stage as would normally happen.
Professor Sikora, in an interview with GB News’s Nigel Farage, said: “There has been very little leadership in pointing the way forward to doctors. The billions of pounds that have been spent on Covid have been taken away from other things.”
“I think we have got a problem” he added. “We have got to get after this; analyse it properly, and go forward not doing this again”
He added that who politicians have used the “statistical quirke” where a hospital death from any cause following a positive covid test was counted as a death from covid.
Commentator Nigel Farage, said that the cost of the Covid lockdown needed to be queried.
Nigel Farage reacts to ONS figures on how many people have died purely of Covid