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Her Indoors's avatar

Can we rename them please? ONS Office of National Silliness? Monty Python comes to mind 😹

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Sheldon Dumont's avatar

I was initially optimistic about this data release in the UK. Maybe we could finally see some reasonably accurate large population statistics. Canadian stats are worthless and possibly intentionally so. The surge you noted in the population size is a frustrating loss of statistical relevance. Their approach seems to be designed to never produce confident results.

A randomly selected 100k per age strata from census in 2013 - 2023 followed for vax status, hospital visits, mortality, would eliminate some of the fudging artifacts.

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