Why do some people think that COVID jabs are to blame for an increase in excess deaths?
The usual suspects....
What are Excess Deaths?
Wait, what do they mean by 'excess deaths?'
"Excess deaths are typically defined as the difference between the observed numbers of deaths in specific time periods and expected numbers of deaths in the same time periods."
Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19
During the COVID pandemic, there were a lot of excess deaths or excess mortality simply because COVID caused a lot of people to die!
What many people are talking about these days aren't those excess deaths though, they are talking about any increases in excess deaths over and above those caused by COVID infections.
And it does seem like there has been an increase in deaths. For that, you can thank anti-vaccine influencers who post about each and every death, blaming them on COVID vaccines.
Are COVID Jabs to Blame for an Increase in Excess Deaths?
So it's good that studies are being done to look at the cause of these excess deaths.
Studies like this one:
"The temporal correlations we observed suggest that many excess deaths reported to non-COVID-19 natural causes during the first 30 mo of the pandemic in the United States were unrecognized COVID-19 deaths."
Excess natural-cause mortality in US counties and its association with reported COVID-19 deaths
And that we can look at data like this from the European Union:
The chart above is about excess deaths. It is very easy to see that it doesn't correlate at all with the number of COVID vaccines that were given in the EU, as you would expect if COVID vaccine harms were behind any rise in excess deaths.
It does correlate very well with cases of COVID!
Excess deaths have been mostly caused by COVID.
"Despite the advances in diagnostics and therapeutics in 2020 and the rapid development of vaccines throughout the year, the end of 2020 saw the permeation of the virus into highly populous societies that had previously suffered limited exposure. In 2021, the rise in infections outpaced the roll-out of vaccines in many such locations and this either led to or was worsened by the emergence of more infectious, higher fatality, SARS-CoV-2 strains such as the Delta variant. We can speculate about how vaccine hesitancy, premature relaxation of containment measures and a global COVID-19 ‘fatigue’ contributed to how the pandemic developed but this is an important area for further study."
The WHO estimates of excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic
So don't be fooled by anti-vaccine propaganda that is trying to link COVID vaccines to deaths, blood clots, turbo cancer, accelerated aging, and anything else they can think of.
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- Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19
- Global excess deaths associated with COVID-19 (modelled estimates)
- The WHO estimates of excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic
- Excess natural-cause mortality in US counties and its association with reported COVID-19 deaths
- EU Excess mortality statistics
- EU COVID Vaccine Tracker
- Excess mortality in England post COVID-19 pandemic: implications for secondary prevention
- No evidence to link UK excess deaths to COVID-19 vaccines
- COVID-19 Vaccination and Non–COVID-19 Mortality Risk — Seven Integrated Health Care Organizations, United States, December 14, 2020–July 31, 2021
