Two wrongs don’t make a right – excess deaths

The ONS has published the first weekly deaths data for 2023 (“Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 6 January 2023“). It confirms that they are both, as with 2022, using a sub-optimal methodology for calculating the five-year average against which to measure excess deaths and failing to offer any logic for … Continue reading Two wrongs don’t make a right – excess deaths