Here's the data for over 80's as a percentage of total deaths since the start of the vaccination programme, by date of death.
Whilst noisy, it is now clear there is a declining trend. Whilst we can't of course say this is *caused* by the vaccination programme, it is *consistent* with what we would expect.
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There are other possible causes which could include changes in the age range of those infected over time.
[edit this is England hospital data, not all nations or all settings]
I've not got time to do this properly at the moment so apologies for the shitty graph done on my phone, but what's interesting about this is we only got decent numbers vaccinated by the 10th of Jan or so.
The official numbers are -
27/12 - 18.49% vaccinated
03/01 - 23.08% vaccinated
10/01 - 36/54% vaccinated
17/01 - 59/43% vaccinated
24/01 - 79/71% vaccinated
So if you add % of over 80's vaccinated on top of that graph you get something like this.
If you apply the rough 3-4 weeks from infection to death timeline, the results we are seeing now in declining deaths is really from about the time we had 25% vaccine coverage of over 80's.
And if the decrease is proportional to the % vaccinated, we should see that blue line start to plummet over the next 2 weeks.