As data on 6 billion people prior to vaccines show, excess death rates during COVID were almost twice as high as those seen with flu. Here is a bar graph showing the levels of average daily excess death seen:
Even more disturbing however, is recent excess death rates being very high during the following two circumstances:
1) lower virulence of the dominant COVID variant
2) high vaccine coverage of the population
Those two circumstances are supposed to lower excess death, yet in several nations, weekly or even monthly average daily death rates surpassed 30 daily excess deaths per million (30 DEDpM).
That level of excess death, from acute respiratory disease, is not feasible — indicating that we must look beyond acute disease in order to be able to explain excess death rates that are THAT high.
As you can see from the bar chart, that level of excess death is about 3 times the average loss of life during World War I, over two times the world excess death rate from Spanish Flu in 2018, and even higher than the average kill rate of the NAZI Holocaust, and even the deadly smallpox epidemic of 1779 in Boston, Massachusetts — before a smallpox vaccine was made.
And to top it off, many of the regions in this “30+ DEDpM” group had correspondingly high levels of vaccine uptake:
As you can see in Row 5 of the Excel spreadsheet, in those weeks when Cuba had over 30 DEDpM, vaccine uptake was so high that a full 1.5% of the Cuban population was getting vaccinated per day.
That high level of vaccine administration is over 6 times the median rate of vaccine dosing worldwide. The average vaccine dosing rate for these super-deadly weeks was one-half of a percent of the population vaccinated per day (in 200 days at that rate, everyone would have received a jab).
Very high vaccine administration levels were overrepresented in the sample of nations with very high excess death rates (representing approximately half of the sample). If vaccine dosing had nothing to do with excess death, then you’d expected for much less of the high-death sample to ALSO be high vaccine uptake.
A reasonable expectation would be for about a fourth or less of the sample to have very high vaccine dosing rates — something more representative of the overall population — not for half of the sample to have really high vaccine dosing rates.
It cannot be ruled out that the very high vaccine uptake during very high excess death rates is more than coincidental.
Reference
[Smallpox in Boston in 1779 led to 1000 deaths per 100,000] — December 31, 2014. Special Edition on Infectious Disease. The Fight Over Inoculation During the 1721 Boston Smallpox Epidemic. https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/special-edition-on-infectious-disease/2014/the-fight-over-inoculation-during-the-1721-boston-smallpox-epidemic/
[Genocide in Rwanda in 1993 (rough extrapolation above overall trend)] — World Bank Crude Death Rate. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CDRT.IN?locations=RW
[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. Available: https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/NAZIS.CHAP1.HTM
[Best 1918 Spanish flu excess death estimate, excluding India, is 487 per 100,000] — 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/
[9373 excess deaths in the first quarter of 2018 in The Netherlands] — 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/
[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
[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