When Briand looked at the 2020 data during that seasonal period, COVID-19-related deaths exceeded deaths from heart diseases. This was highly unusual since heart disease has always prevailed as the leading cause of deaths. However, when taking a closer look at the death numbers, she noted something strange. As Briand compared the number of deaths per cause during that period in 2020 to 2018, she noticed that instead of the expected drastic increase across all causes, there was a significant decrease in deaths due to heart disease. Even more surprising, as seen in the graph below, this sudden decline in deaths is observed for all other causes.
This trend is completely contrary to the pattern observed in all previous years. Interestingly, … the total decrease in deaths by other causes almost exactly equals the increase in deaths by COVID-19.
Of course, I don’t want to undermine anyone’s faith in COVID-19.
This is an actual scientific study: Excess Deaths From COVID-19 and Other Causes, March-July 2020. It's not done by someone who does not know how to read or interpret the data.
ReplyDeleteExactly how does any of that refute the numbers, which will be there when the year is over? If there is no change in the mortality rate between 2020 and 2019, what is it we are supposed to have been frightened of? But as I said, I don’t want interfere with anyone’s act of faith.
ReplyDeleteThe numbers refute the conclusion that "there is no change in the mortality rate between 2020 and 2019", see also here:
ReplyDeletehttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-death-count?tab=chart&stackMode=absolute&time=earliest..2020-12-27®ion=World