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Leah Gunn Barrett's avatar

This came to my attention today, an open letter from Britain's Health Advisory and Recovery Team leads calling for a suspension of mRNA boosters. More research is urgently required and the UK Government should immediately commence Module 4 (vaccine efficacy) of the Covid Inquiry.

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/britains-health-advisory-and-recovery?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1119676&post_id=141549039&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2mqcm&utm_medium=email

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Hi, thanks for taking the time to write the article. The relationship between the rushed and minimally tested COVID vaccines and patterns in excess deaths needs a careful spotlight shone on it until there is a full and proper study.

It's a complex topic and important how to express, so I wondered about one thing you wrote - "With the worst of Covid over, annual deaths from all causes should have returned to at least pre-pandemic levels".

If we take 2023 as example, comparing 2023 to the "pre-pandemic' numbers of all-cause deaths, Scotland today has almost a 10% increase in people over 65 years old. We have 45,500 more 65-74 year olds (+8.1%), 22,100 more 75-84 year olds (+6.7%), and almost 15,000 more over 85 (a whopping +12.3%). With almost 10% more elderly people - especially 12% more over 85s - all cause deaths will inevitably be much higher than pre-pandemic?

I wondered what you thought of that, and how you consider population change when considering total number of deaths?

Do agree there are things very awry with all-cause deaths, especially in summer 2021, but it needs care to separate that from the population changes, and show it.

Thanks again, enjoy the Substack!

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