Written in response to this open letter:
“Thank you for contacting us with your concerns about ONS’s Deaths by Vaccination Status publication and for your patience as we have carried out our investigations. It has taken us some time to respond, for which I apologise. This is because these are important issues and we wanted to consider them carefully. I have set out our thinking on the issues below….
We consider that it is therefore likely that the sample used in the Deaths by Vaccination Status publication is not representative of the general population…
Overall, then, our view is that the Deaths by Vaccination Status publication does not provide information on vaccine effectiveness or vaccine safety, and should not be used in this way.”
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