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The authors of a Potential Vaccine-Related Serious Adverse Events study in Italy may have forgotten to include some deaths in its calculations

A study by Flacco et al looked at potentially vaccine-related serious adverse events (PVR-SAEs) in a single province in Italy. It looks like the authors forgot to include some deaths in their calculations, and I ve also noticed a few issues with timings and cohort sizes. In brief: Comparison times and people in each group An Continue reading "The authors of a Potential Vaccine-Related Serious…

Did Scotland see an increase in excess deaths in 2022?

"Don't kill granny" was our aim in 2020. How did that work out for 2021 and 2022 when we look at excess deaths?

Public Health Scotland graphed hospital admissions on a log scale. Why?

The most recent PHS statistical report graphs daily acute hospital admissions on a log scale. What does the graph look like with a linear scale? Why use a log scale to compare COVID and all cause hospital admissions?

COVID underlying cause vs contributory factor: comparing John Dee’s England results and NRS Scottish results

English COVID underlying cause vs contributory factor graphed by John Dee shows high correlation. What do the Scottish data look like?

Scottish Still Births data

I was asked recently about Scottish still births data. I graphed some data from the NHS OpenData portal. How does 2020 look?

Here’s the evidence for vaccine passport effectiveness

Vaccine passports are being extended in Scotland. The first minister said the vaccine passport scheme was making an important and proportionate contribution to stemming transmission . https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59289707 From the data, the new intervention doesn t seem to have had any effect on transmission at all since their introduction on 1 October. Let s look at the number of…

Scotland’s COVID booster data have been published. Here are some graphs.

The data on Scotland's COVID booster programme have been published. How's it going?

Excess deaths are up across all older age groups in Scotland

Scotland has seen 2758 more deaths than expected from April 2021 until now. Is this okay?

Excess deaths and vaccination: making things a bit clearer

I've updated my graphing of excess deaths and how they relate to vaccination. How are excess deaths changing now that several age groups are 100% vaccinated?

High numbers of COVID cases in children – because we test them more than other age groups.

Following the end of the school holidays, there has been concern about the number of COVID-19 cases in school-age groups. Cases have risen very significantly within Scotland and we are looking closely at why that is the case Undoubtedly the gathering of people together in schools will have fuelled that to some extent, and you can Continue reading "High numbers of COVID cases in children because we…