Concerns Over Vaccine Safety and Excess Deaths Raised in Lords

Questions have been raised in the House of Lords about the surge in unexpected deaths in younger people, with the government urged to provide the data on which their claim that COVID-19 vaccines are safe is based. The Conservative peer Lord Strathcarran prompted the debate by asking for the numbers of excess deaths in under-65s since the beginning of the lockdown period in 2020. “Converting these statistics to reality means that 60,000 people died, mostly from heart-related conditions, at a much younger age than they would have been expected to before the pandemic, and in particular, our response to it,” Lord Strathcarran, a former journalist, told the House....