As one expects with Brown, the figures presented here are misleading (and I don't know whether he's done it deliberately or because he's simply ignorant). The ons.gov.uk site explains this clearly:"Confounding factorsFactors that are related both to an outcome (for example, death) and an exposure (for example, vaccination) and therefore must be controlled for to find the impact of the exposure on the outcome. For example, age is a confounding factor for analyses of mortality by vaccination status because older people have higher mortality rates in general and were also more likely to be vaccinated earlier because of age-based prioritisation and differences in uptake. Therefore, if age is not controlled for, mortality rates of the vaccinated population can be inflated because of age rather than the impact of vaccination."In this case, the age-standardised mortality rates per 100,000 person-years are two or three times higher for people who are unvaccinated than with vaccinated. So simply ignore Brown in this case as in everything he posts.
Richard Carter ● 624d