Right, I hope diffster and ParaUK at least find this interesting..
I put together the England & Wales Excess Deaths for 2020,21,22,23 into a single graph.
-> For each age-group,
-> Showing 'excess over expected' all-cause mortality for the week in question,
-> Compared to 2015-2019 for that week,
-> All weeks together (over 150 weeks!) in a big long chart.

[link to ibb.co (secure)]
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-> You can see something obviously happened in Spring 2020, and at the end of 2020.
-> Then, there was another wave of death in the latter half of 2021
-> and another wave in mid-end of 2022, which hasn't really gone away.
-> It is noticeable overall how rare it is to have no excess for any group >15yo.
-> Something is OBVIOUSLY happening to the children since the end of 2021, too.

Finally, don't be fooled, 2023 might look low compared to early 2020, but in fact those red bulges in the older age-groups in 2023 are 20-30% excess all-cause mortality!

I think I will now add to the chart to show the waves of vaccination that occurred
- but that will take a bit of work, as I only have the NHS England snapshots which show only cumulative numbers each week... ugh!


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I also made this simpler plot, just showing the total Excess All-Cause Mortality for the whole year in one bar, for each age-group.
[link to ibb.co (secure)]
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-> It shows things aren't getting any better in 2023.
-> The older folks >75 are having a bad time in 2023, compared to 2021 and 2022.
-> The thing happening to the 1-14yo group is visible in the 2022 and 2023 columns of this chart, too.