Hong Kong didn’t rollout COVID shots as fast as many other places, and the peak administration rate of COVID shots was actually in 2022, when average daily doses passed 80,000:
This high administration of COVID jabs corresponds to a steep rise in death compared to previous years:
The expectation was for Hong Kong to have 1,448 more deaths each year, as it had been doing for the previous 5 years. The tiny error bars represent the standard error of 1,029 — though the typical annual rise of 1,448 in deaths, when put into terms of number of standard deviations (not errors), is 0.6 standard deviations.
There is no excess death signal in 2020 or 2021, indicating that COVID wasn’t deadly. But the 2022 deaths are almost a 20% increase over 2021 deaths. Because the jump from 2021 to 2022 was +10,021 deaths — that jump represents 4.5 standard deviations of increase from 2021 (not merely from the mean).
That’s over 7 times the expected increase in yearly deaths, calling into question the safety of the COVID shots.