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UK Health Agency Accused of Covering Up Potential Vaccine-Linked Excess Deaths
16 Nov, 2025
Summary
- UK health watchdog refuses to publish data that could link COVID vaccine to excess deaths
- Officials claim releasing data would cause "distress or anger" for bereaved families
- Cross-party group alarmed by "growing public and professional concerns" over UK's excess deaths since 2020
As of November 16, 2025, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has been accused of a "cover-up" after refusing to publish data that could potentially link the COVID-19 vaccine to excess deaths in the country.
According to the report, the UKHSA argued that releasing the data would lead to "distress or anger" for bereaved relatives if a connection were to be discovered. Public health officials also claimed that publishing the information risked damaging the "well-being" and "mental health" of families and friends of those who died.
Last year, a cross-party group of MPs and peers expressed alarm about the "growing public and professional concerns" over the UK's rates of excess deaths since 2020. The group noted that potentially critical data, which maps the dates of people's COVID vaccine doses to their dates of death, have been shared with pharmaceutical companies but not made publicly available.
The campaign group UsForThem had requested the UKHSA to release the data under freedom of information laws, but the agency refused, citing concerns about "misinformation" and the potential risk of individuals being identified, despite the request being for an anonymized dataset.
