{"id":62556,"date":"2025-11-21T20:26:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62556"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:26:51","slug":"uk-government-wins-2-year-battle-to-withhold-data-linking-covid-vaccines-to-excess-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62556","title":{"rendered":"UK Government wins 2-year battle to withhold data linking COVID Vaccines to excess deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Covid_Vials_Union_Jack.png\" alt=\"Covid Vials Union Jack\" width=\"774\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Covid_Vials_Union_Jack.png 774w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Covid_Vials_Union_Jack-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Covid_Vials_Union_Jack-768x398.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/uk-health-security-agency\">UK Health Security Agency<\/a>\u00a0(UKHSA) is not required to publicize data that may link COVID-19 vaccines to an increase in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2025\/11\/15\/government-withholding-data-covid-jab-link-excess-deaths\/\">excess deaths in the United Kingdom<\/a>\u00a0during the pandemic, following a ruling last week by the U.K. Information Commissioner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling, which concludes a two-year battle for the release of the data, has led to accusations of a \u201ccover-up,\u201d according to The Telegraph, which first reported the story.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usforthem.co.uk\/\">UsForThem<\/a>, a nonprofit advocacy group, requested the data under the country\u2019s freedom of information laws. However, UKHSA challenged the request, citing concerns that releasing the data could fuel \u201cmisinformation\u201d and cause \u201cdistress\u201d to the vaccine-injured.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/human-rights\/uk-government-wins-2-year-battle-to-withhold-data-linking-covid-vaccines-to-excess-deaths\/\">https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/human-rights\/uk-government-wins-2-year-battle-to-withhold-data-linking-covid-vaccines-to-excess-deaths\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0UK Health Security Agency\u00a0(UKHSA) is not required to publicize data that may link COVID-19 vaccines to an increase in\u00a0excess deaths in the United Kingdom\u00a0during the pandemic, following a ruling last week by the U.K. Information Commissioner\u2019s Office. The ruling, which concludes a two-year battle for the release of the data, has led to accusations of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62556\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UK Government wins 2-year battle to withhold data linking COVID Vaccines to excess deaths&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62558,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62556\/revisions\/62558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}