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UK Government Withholding Vaccine-Death Data It Previously Published

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The UK Government has stopped publishing vaccine-death data and denied a FOI request to resume publication, citing potential distress to bereaved families, sparking controversy over transparency and data withholding.

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freespirt
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The UK Health Security Agency stopped publishing deaths-by-vaccination-status data in June 2022, after publishing it regularly before. A recent FOI request to resume publication was denied under Section 38 (would endanger health) - the irony of using a health protection law to withhold health data.

The stated reason: releasing the data might cause “distress or anger” to bereaved families if a link to vaccination were discovered.

I’ve compiled a comprehensive analysis examining:

• Why they stopped publishing data they previously published

• Historical precedents (contaminated blood scandal, thalidomide, Tuskegee)

• The pattern: every government health cover-up follows the same trajectory

• Why “protecting people from information” always fails

• Global survey: no Western democracy is transparent on this

• Legal/technical mechanisms that could force disclosure

The technical question: If the data shows vaccines are safe, why not publish it to prove that? The suppression itself is the signal.

This follows a pattern where initial transparency turns to opacity precisely when excess mortality signals emerge. Same timeline, same justifications, across multiple Western countries.

The repository includes the full investigation with citations, historical evidence, and analysis of why institutional self-preservation trumps transparency every time - until it doesn’t.

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