# Excess deaths, ambiguous news, scarce data

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Podcast: [Dr. John Campbell](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784)
Published: 2026-09-22T04:07:30+00:00
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Download free high-res PDFs of the posters, download free copies of my two text books. Any donations using this link help the work of campbell teaching. https://drjohncampbell.co.uk/ More data still required on the nature of the excess deaths UK Zoe data The report and the data files https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/covid-public-data 1.48% in England (1 in 65 people) 1.49% in Wales (1 in 65 people) 1.86% in Northern Ireland (1 in 55 people) 1.59% in Scotland (1 in 65 people) Less than 4 in 10 patients in hospital in England with COVID-19 in October 2022 were being treated primarily for COVID-19 Deaths and excess deaths Week ending 18 November 2022 471 deaths involving COVID-19 registered in the UK Deaths involving COVID-19 accounted for 3.6% of all deaths in the UK (a fall from 4.4% in the previous week) A total of 13,236 deaths were registered in the UK 7.7% above the five-year average (941 excess deaths) The rate of death involving COVID-19 was higher for those with obesity than those without obesity https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19/latestinsights Those who reported symptoms with their first infection were less likely to be reinfected 2.1 million people in the UK were experiencing self-reported long COVID as of 1 October 2022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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