Covid deaths no longer overwhelmingly among unvaccinated as toll on elderly grows

Wow. The Excel file from the ONS shows 98.5% of people age 80 and above are boosted. That leaves hardly anyone not boosted or not vaccinated. The population 85+ years old is 1.6 million:

Multiply by 1.5% gives 24,000 people. A very small data set. I expect only a small fraction of that is "not vaccinated." A few thousand? You cannot draw many conclusions from that. I'll bet they live in the middle of nowhere. They must be very healthy old geezers, or they would be dead from COVID. Very healthy or very lucky.

Jeffery Morris wrote a number of papers taking a close look at the UK COVID statistics. Such as this one. He described some statistical anomalies caused by the small data set.

www.covid-datascience.com

The UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) has released all-cause death data for England split out by age and vaccination groups. Its first release in November included weekly deaths through late September. I wrote a series of blog posts investigating these data, and pointing out that "stragglers" who received their 1st dose on schedule but delayed receiving their 2nd dose had a higher risk of death. They presented 1st and 2nd dose data, and one significant weakness was that it aggregated ages