For the week 29 (ie as is 22/7/2022) the 5-year pre-2020 mortality is 9093 for England and Wales. That gives a +20.7 percentage for 2022. But the ONS weekly reported figure is known to have significant variations driven by bank and statutory holidays, and can be somewhat mitigated by averaging the reporting over three weeks. This doesn't…
For the week 29 (ie as is 22/7/2022) the 5-year pre-2020 mortality is 9093 for England and Wales. That gives a +20.7 percentage for 2022. But the ONS weekly reported figure is known to have significant variations driven by bank and statutory holidays, and can be somewhat mitigated by averaging the reporting over three weeks. This doesn't alter your conclusions.
I calculate the present rolling 12-month total for excess mortality, for the UK as a whole, to be just over 50,000. This figure peaked in week 11 of 2021 at 109,179 over the average of 530,000 for England and Wales.
For the week 29 (ie as is 22/7/2022) the 5-year pre-2020 mortality is 9093 for England and Wales. That gives a +20.7 percentage for 2022. But the ONS weekly reported figure is known to have significant variations driven by bank and statutory holidays, and can be somewhat mitigated by averaging the reporting over three weeks. This doesn't alter your conclusions.
I calculate the present rolling 12-month total for excess mortality, for the UK as a whole, to be just over 50,000. This figure peaked in week 11 of 2021 at 109,179 over the average of 530,000 for England and Wales.