On covid-19 death statistics 6- April 2021 (final?) edition

 As we are now officially no longer in a pandemic, and the increases each month are getting so small, this will be the final post in this series. I though may do a final addendum once NHS England stops publishing data. Previous posts in the series can be found here: 1 2 3 4 5.

So for one last time,  here is this month's update of NHS England's weekly covid stats and update my charts.

As before, all raw data can be found here, using data up to April 28th.

To start, here is the breakdown of all deaths by age and pre-existing condition:

Following the usual format, here is my updated monthly summary data. Top left is total deaths with or without a pre-existing condition. The bottom left is broken down into age, I have simplified it into under or over 60. To the right in orange are percentage totals.

Next, here is my graph showing total deaths by a pre-existing condition. Again the curve seems to have plateaued.

And here is the breakdown by over and under the age of 60:

Moving on to the breakdown by gender, here is the data:

And here is the graph showing the percentage of deaths by age group and gender.

Finally the breakdown by ethnicity. As before I simplified it down to 4 groups, white, mixed, BAME, and unknown/unstated. Here is the data:

And here are these figures in a pie chart.

Final thoughts: the patterns have barely changed in the 5 months I have been looking at this data. It is clear that the vast majority of deaths occurred in those aged over 60 and with a pre-existing condition (I saw recently that the average age of death was 82), and the risk of dying if under 20 (40 deaths in total) has been vastly exaggerated by the media (see this post by James Dellingpole on their corrosive influence).

With hindsight, I'd suggest the biggest mistake we made was not protecting nursing homes better (as did Sweeden), and that the long-term damage of lockdowns on healthcare, wellbeing, and the economy were not worth it based on the risks of death.