COVID-19 vaccination status report (FOI)

​Request

Regarding your recent report ‘Vaccine status of COVID-19 patients in Jersey General Hospital‘ dated 21st January 2021. For transparency could you provide the figures for the same data set (age group 40 and above, between July and December) with the following changes?

A

Remove the 1 dose of vaccine patients from the unvaccinated group and include them separately.

B

Include the average age for each of the groups (unvaccinated / 1 dose / 2 or more doses).

C

Include if any in the unvaccinated group were unable to be vaccinated due to pre-existing conditions or co-morbidities. 

Response

A to C

The information requested is not held in recorded form. Under the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 departments are not required to undertake manipulation or create new data sets to provide a response. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.

Article applied

Article 3 - Meaning of "information held by a public authority"

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.