Excess deaths in the spotlight once again

But has anything changed?

This week, David Davis MP tweeted that “the potential link between Covid vaccines and excess deaths needs to be properly investigated.” Now, David may be looking for last-minute votes, but he's forgetting that the current government has already refused to look into the issue

Due to our frustration with the lack of interest in excess deaths, we launched TTE In August 2022, publishing Why it's Time to Investigate Excess Deaths in England and Wales. The signals in the data suggested something wasn’t quite right: excess deaths were 18 per cent above the 5-year average.  

By mid-October, deaths were still 17 percent above the average. Therese Coffey, the new Health Secretary, was in post, but she remained ignorant. 

But in January 2023, Steve Barclay, The Health Secretary, woke up to the issue. He told Sky News that “it’s extremely complicated as to what the drive of those excess deaths are” and called the year-ending report of the excess deaths “concerning.” Even Owen Jones was aware of the …