Tag Archive: Excess deaths
Why Has There Been a Rise in Non-Covid-Related Heart Attacks Since the Vaccine Roll-Out?
Is there a relationship between the roll out of Covid vaccines and the increase in non-Covid-related heart attacks? An economist investigates for the Daily Sceptic.
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Can Lack of Obesity Explain Low COVID-19 Death Rates in East Asia?
Why have COVID death rates been so low in East Asia? One factor that's often mentioned is lack of obesity. But this can’t explain more than a small part of the difference between East Asia and the rest of the world.
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July’s Age-Standardised Mortality Rate Was Equal to the Five-Year Average
The age-standardised rate from January through July was only 0.8% higher than the five-year average. Another month without many excess deaths and 2021 will officially be an 'average year' for English mortality.
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Age-Standardised Mortality Rate Comes in Below Five-Year Average for *Fourth* Consecutive Month
June's age-standardised mortality rate was the second-lowest on record for that month. England has now had *four months in a row* of "negative excess mortality". Average mortality up to June was lower than in 2018.
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New Paper Claims Lockdowns Do Not Cause More Health Harms Than They Prevent, but It Misses the Big Picture
A new paper claims that lockdowns do not cause more health harms than they prevent. But the harmful long-term effects of lockdown are yet to be quantified, so the authors have little basis for their conclusion.
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Since the 8th of March, There Have Been 9,484 *Fewer* Deaths Than Normal
The link between cases and deaths has weakened substantially in recent weeks. However, the situation is actually even more positive: measured by excess deaths, the pandemic hasn't taken any lives since early March.
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Reductions in Quality of Life Have Vastly Outweighed COVID-19 Deaths, Say Researchers
Two economists have estimated that the world lost 48 million life-years due to people dying from COVID in 2020. "Every year", they note, "at least twice as many life years are lost due to children dying of diarrhea."
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New Zealand Hospitals Flooded with Children Due to Immune Systems Weakened by Lockdown, Doctors Say
New Zealand and Australia are currently seeing a large number of children in hospital with respiratory illness, which doctors are blaming on the lockdowns for keeping them away from bugs.
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Lockdowns “Did Not Lead to Reductions in Excess Deaths” – Study
A new study from leading U.S. think tank National Bureau of Economic Research has shown (once again) that lockdown policies produced no discernible reduction of the pandemic death toll. If anything, they increased it.
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Westminster City Council Advertises Contract for Building of Body Storage Facilities in Case of an “Excess Deaths Situation”
Westminster City Council is advertising a contract opportunity for the construction of "body storage facilities" in the event of an "excess deaths situation". Is a new variant on the way, or is this another overreaction?
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