Historical Daily Rates of Excess Death
Notice how death differences between Sweden and Bulgaria reach 27-fold
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Chart highlights:
—From April 2021 to April 2022, Bulgaria had almost 27 times the excess death of Sweden
—Bulgaria had excess death rates which exceeded World War I, and even the Spanish Flu of 1918, approaching Holocaust levels
—By April of 2021, when Bulgaria had death rates that were over “half-Holocaust” levels, Sweden had only flu-like excess death rates
Reference
[Excess Deaths per Million population] — OWID. https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
[17 million died in 4.5 years of World War I (USA lost 117,465 lives in 19 months of fighting)] — From: https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/reperes112018.pdf
[Annualized 0.91% kill rate of Holocaust (Germany + Occupied Europe)] — DEMOCIDE: NAZI GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER. 20,946,000 Victims: Nazi Germany 1933 To 1945. By R.J. Rummel. https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/NAZIS.CHAP1.HTM
[Excess death due to Spanish Flu, excluding India, was 4870 per million in 1918 and 1010 per million in 1919] — Spreeuwenberg P, Kroneman M, Paget J. Reassessing the Global Mortality Burden of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. Am J Epidemiol. 2018 Dec 1;187(12):2561-2567. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwy191. PMID: 30202996; PMCID: PMC7314216. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7314216/
[Average daily excess death during 2018 in the Netherlands was 1.5 per million; peak daily death (Week 10) was 9.9 per 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/