ONS excludes vaccine adverse reactions from ICD codes

Written by John Dee on March 6, 2023. Posted in Current News

Back on 13 Dec 2022 über cool dude Joel Smalley of Dead Man Talking fame gave a Christmas present to his fellow warriors, this being a data dump from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealing the death tally by date of death (as opposed to date of death registration, which can muddy the water) by week for the period 2014/w23 to 2022/w46 by sex, age band and primary cause for the fair nation of England.

This caused me to do a little happy dance just like Gregg Wallace on BBC’s Masterchef, and since then I have been relying on this valuable dataset for all manner.

Today I am going to do a little war dance and I shall tell you why…

The ONS, in their gracious and bountiful number-wisdom, have neglected to include an entire ICD-10 chapter this being XIX Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes, which covers codes S00 – T98.

I have downloaded the source file again this fine afternoon from here and checked all three tables to find no mention of codes S00 – T98.

What this means in terms of missing numbers of deaths I am not sure but a whole bunch of deaths will be missing even if that bunch is modest compared to biggies such as neoplasms.

Some folk might expect vaccine injury to be specifically coded in this chapter and they’d be right – here’s a whole bunch of ICD-10 codes that would be used:

How physicians go about this I’m not certain but T50 is certainly what they call a billable code header, so there are incentives to use it…

I’ve written to the ONS project lead asking for a revised table, so we’ll have to see what they say. Meanwhile, this has thrown a spanner in the works since there’s not much point trying to figure excess death or mortality with precision using an incomplete dataset: it might be inconsequential and it might not.

Until I can resolve his I’ll have to shelve all analyses based on this data and try a different tack for a while.

What is strange is that an intentional effort must have been made to exclude a certain ICD-10 range from tabulations, and that range is where overt coding of vaccine harm will sit.

Another of those coincidences, perhaps? We shall see.

I shall either pop situation updates at the bottom of this file or add them to the comments.

UPDATE (4 March): The ONS have replied pretty promptly to my query, which is most pleasing!

It transpires the S and T codes are nature of injury codes used to code secondary cause of death so are not included in primary cause tabulations.

This makes sense but only to a point because it means, for example, that crushing injury of head (S07) is considered a secondary cause as is avulsion and traumatic amputation of part of head (S08).

Neither can burn and corrosion of trunk be considered a primary cause (T21) or burn and corrosion of other internal organs (T28). This also rules out toxic effect of alcohol (T51), toxic effect of carbon monoxide (T58) and asphyxiation (T71) as primary causes of death.

All poisonings and adverse reactions are also ruled out as primary causes (T36 – T50), as are all toxic effects of drugs and other substances (T51 – T65).

So there you go. It is interesting is it not, that pharmaceutical products and other dangerous substances cannot be considered to be a primary cause of death?

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