[cm2187]

But all these factors would impact equally covid cases and covid deaths (since the UK definition of a covid death is a covid case who died), so you would still expect a reduction of the % vaccinated from one to the other. And by September all the vaccination curves plateau-ed, so it's unlikely to be a timing issue.

[josephcsible]

> the UK definition of a covid death is a covid case who died

This is what a bunch of us have been complaining about all along. Not everyone with COVID who dies actually died because of COVID.

[cm2187]

I thought that but 1) the economist numbers seem to confirm the covid deaths numbers at least for the UK, and 2) you get roughly the same numbers of daily covid deaths [1] by "tested positive in last 28 days" vs "covid on death certificate". So while it is an explanation that would match the data, I don't know if that's true.

[1] https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths