Deaths and adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine (FOI)

A

Could you tell me how many people have had adverse reactions to any of the Covid-19 vaccinations please?

B

Also, how many people have died within 28 days of receiving the vaccine please?

Response

A

Information is publicly available on www.gov.je in response to part (C) of a previous FOI request. Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied to information up to 28 April 2021.Please see the following link:

Deaths and side-effects linked to the Covid-19 vaccine (FOI)

B

Information is publicly available on www.gov.je in response to previous FOI requests. Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied to information up to 30th April 2021.Please see the following link:

Deaths within 28 days of a Covid-19 vaccination - March and April 2021 (FOI)

Further analysis of deaths between 13 December 2020 to 30 June 2021, show 60 deaths occurred within 28 days of receiving a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. These additional three deaths occurred between 13 December and 30 April and have been identified through further work to match the deaths database and the vaccine dataset. For deaths occurring within 28 days of a second dose of the coronavirus vaccine, between 13 December and 30 June, a total of 36 deaths have occurred. This includes two which have been subsequently matched since the publication of the previous Freedom of Information response and six which have occurred in May and June.

To note, this analysis requires the matching of two-different sets of data (the public health deaths database and the vaccine dataset) which do not have a common unique identifier for individuals. As such, an additional 10 matched records have been added to this analysis, of which five occurred within 28 days of a vaccine dose being administered.

Article applied

Article 23 Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.