Weekly Deaths Update (part 4)
Registered weekly deaths in England & Wales 2010 - 2022
Like Ada Doom we’ve seen something nasty in the woodshed: a dirty great hike in non-COVID all cause deaths during weeks 14 - 18 of 2020 that we suspect was generated in a most foul manner. Remove this hike and the pandemic evaporates into not much more than seasonal respiratory illness.
Today we are going to look for clues by considering age. The good news is that I have all cause weekly deaths by age band dating back to 2010; the bad news is that historic banding is somewhat limited in scope to just 7 seven wide bands (<1y, 1 - 14y, 15 - 44y, 45 - 64y, 65 - 74y, 75 - 84y, +85y) right up to 2020 when the ONS decided to release more refined datasets. Seven crude bands it shall be then, and we shall iron out the wrinkled cloth of population growth over 13 years by standardising counts to a total population of 58 million souls, though this makes little difference as we saw in part 1. Herewith seven slides with a story to tell in a visual stream inspired by Molly Bloom in Joyce’s Ulysses. …