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: Received: 22 February 2023 / Approved: 24 February 2023 / Online: 24 February 2023 (02:03:36 CET)
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Donzelli, A.; Malatesta, G.; Di Palmo, G.; Cosentino, M.; Alessandria, M. All-Cause Mortality According to COVID-19 Vaccination Status: an analysis of the UK Office for National Statistics Public Data. Preprints2023, 2023020414. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0414.v1.
Donzelli, A.; Malatesta, G.; Di Palmo, G.; Cosentino, M.; Alessandria, M. All-Cause Mortality According to COVID-19 Vaccination Status: an analysis of the UK Office for National Statistics Public Data. Preprints 2023, 2023020414. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0414.v1.
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Donzelli, A.; Malatesta, G.; Di Palmo, G.; Cosentino, M.; Alessandria, M. All-Cause Mortality According to COVID-19 Vaccination Status: an analysis of the UK Office for National Statistics Public Data. Preprints2023, 2023020414. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0414.v1.
Donzelli, A.; Malatesta, G.; Di Palmo, G.; Cosentino, M.; Alessandria, M. All-Cause Mortality According to COVID-19 Vaccination Status: an analysis of the UK Office for National Statistics Public Data. Preprints 2023, 2023020414. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0414.v1.
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemics has had an unprecedented global impact, and the COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign has been commonly regarded as crucial to overcome the pandemics. Since all-cause mortality is the best way to measure the consequences of a health intervention, the present study was devised to analyze the all-cause mortality data of the United Kingdom (UK), which are made publicly available broken down by vaccination status. Data from January to May 2022 were retrospectively collected and analyzed according to age groups and vaccination status and the relative risk (RR) for all-cause mortality was calculated in comparison to the corresponding unvaccinated groups. All-cause mortality RR was also calculated from January to May 2021 for vaccinated people. Results show that the all-cause mortality RR was higher in people who received one or two doses of COVID-19 vaccines throughout the whole period and in any of the age groups considered. People vaccinated with three doses more than 21 days earlier had RRs lower than unvaccinated people, which however linearly increased over time. RR in vaccinated people of all ages in comparison to unvaccinated people were lower in January-May 2021, however they steadily grew over time. The finding that all-cause mortality RR in vaccinated in comparison to unvaccinated people increases over time requires careful examination to understand the underlying factors. Meanwhile, all the other major countries should undertake a systematic collection of all-causes mortality broken down by vaccination status, and mass vaccination campaigns should be suspended.
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