One More Study on Deaths During the Epidemic

As promised, I am doing these one by one so it isn’t too long a single post.  This study examines “excess” mortality for 47 western countries from 2020 to 2022.  It uses a 2015 to 2019 baseline, which is far too short and doesn’t do much to look at appropriate age groups or causes.  It finds total excess deaths of 3.1 million in the study period.  Almost all of the 47 countries had excess deaths in at least one of the years and only a few small isolated countries had none.  The authors note that these excess deaths persisted despite the introduction of vaccines and the extreme suppression measures forced on populations.  And they note that these extreme measures likely impacted health and mortality, citing the increase in deaths from chronic diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes.  They also note that most of the deaths appear to be in the elderly and few in children.  There is some suggestion by the authors that CV-19 vaccines might play a role, a suggestion which has no support in the actual data.   (BMJ Study)