Germany
The deadliest week in recent history in Germany was Week 10 of 2018, a particularly bad flu season which led to Germany recording over 26,000 all-cause deaths in just 7 days.
With 82.781 million people in Germany back then, the weekly death per million (WDpM) for that one week was more than 314 WDpM and, if annualized (extrapolated) out to a 52-week year, then it would make for a conventional yearly death rate of 1633 per 100,000 — roughly twice the world average death rate.
Weekly deaths from COVID were never able to reach as high as the weekly deaths seen in Week 10 of 2018, but COVID deaths were more spread out so that there’d be a higher total if averaged over all of the weeks of the year.
Regarding known excess death associated with flu, The Netherlands had a particularly bad year in 2018: averaging 1.5 daily excess deaths per million DEDpM over the 365 days of the year. That value of daily excess death per million serves as a benchmark for determining whether a disease is flu-like or whether it is something worse than flu.
Vietnam
In Vietnam before vaccines rolled out, COVID was safer than flu, as indicated by an average daily excess death rate of 0.1 DEDpM — about 15 times less excess death than what was seen in one of the worst outcomes (The Netherlands) during the worst recent flu (2017/18).
That flu in the Netherlands for that year was 15 times worse than what Vietnam ever saw under COVID. After vaccine coverage expanded, however, excess death rates began rising and rising.
Vaccine uptake in Vietnam reached 1 dose for every 10,000 people on 12 Mar 2021, but didn’t really take off until July of 2021.
Averaging all days from 27 Jan 2020 to 22 Mar 2021, and comparing it to post-rollout days after 22 Mar 2021, Vietnam experienced excess death at 40 times the prior rate AFTER they rolled out vaccines there.
The Omicron surge was even worse, in spite of Omicron variant being the mildest-ever variant of COVID ever seen. Excess death during Omicron was 58 times higher than the average of excess death before vaccines, when an even stronger variant of COVID was around.
From 24 Jan 2022 to 12 Jun 2022, there were 93,000 excess deaths estimated in Vietnam by The Economist, making for an average daily excess death rate of 6.9 DEDpM — over 4 times the excess death seen with severe flu, and a full two-thirds of the average daily excess death rate (10.5 DEDpM) experienced over the 4.5 years of World War I.
That’s “war-like” excess death.
If COVID was to blame for these excess deaths, then when those stronger variants of COVID were around (before vaccine rollout), you would have expected for the majority of the excess death to occur.
Exactly the opposite happened.
As COVID weakened, excess death in Vietnam rose. This indicates that the vaccines are the likely cause of the excess death, not the disease against which the vaccines are targeted.
That’s now 200,000 “likely-preventable” (needless) deaths and counting — in a country of 97 million.
Reference
[Mortality report in Germany] — https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press/2022/01/PE22_014_126.html
[Weekly excess death across Europe] — EuroMoMo. https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
[Total COVID-19 doses administered per 100 people] -- OWID. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
[Estimated cumulative excess deaths during COVID] OWID. https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
[16,543,185 died over 4.5 years of fighting, from nations whose sum total of population was 960 million] — World War I casualties. Available: https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/reperes112018.pdf
[9373 Excess Deaths in first quarter of 2018 in The Netherlands, when population was 17.181 million] — van Asten L, Harmsen CN, Stoeldraijer L, Klinkenberg D, Teirlinck AC, de Lange MMA, Meijer A, van de Kassteele J, van Gageldonk-Lafeber AB, van den Hof S, van der Hoek W. Excess Deaths during Influenza and Coronavirus Disease and Infection-Fatality Rate for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2, the Netherlands. Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 Feb;27(2):411-420. doi: 10.3201/eid2702.202999. Epub 2021 Jan 4. PMID: 33395381; PMCID: PMC7853586. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7853586/