Created: 2022-12-29 09:52
Excess mortality is a term used in epidemiology and public health that refers to the number of deaths from all causes during a crisis above and beyond what we would have expected to see under ‘normal’ conditions. Excess mortality during the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19)
An epidemic, and specially a pandemic, will always cause deaths. The true measure of an epidemic is the excess mortality it causes. Focusing only on the deaths caused by the epidemic virus misses important numbers of other deaths related to the way the epidemic is handled.
Excess mortality is the only true measure of the impact of an epidemic, as the 19th-century epidemiologist William Farr insisted: “The death rate is a fact; all else is inference.” And lockdowns cause excess mortality outside the virus itself: from untreated cancer and heart disease, from suicide and mental illness. If you look at excess mortality over the past three years, on most data sets one of the countries with the lowest overall mortality increases is Sweden, the only country that stood against the herd and refused to implement widespread compulsory lockdowns or close schools. China’s Covid nightmare is the final proof: lockdowns were a total failure