Severe Flu in Europe vs. median COVID in World

Post #523

In this prior report, the severe flu of 2017/18 in the Netherlands was compared to COVID years. To extend the analysis, 24 nations of Europe in 2017/18 — with an excess death rate of 338 per million — will be used here.

NOTE: COVID deaths accrued by the end of the year. The 5 regions not reporting on 31 Dec 2021 were Algeria, Belarus, Gibraltar, Jamaica, and Panama.

The excess death rate for severe (2017/2018) flu in Europe is at left, and the middle column for 2020 shows that COVID was not worse than severe flu. But the right column for 2021 — where COVID shots were given — indicates that COVID shots created so much excess death that it was more than triple that found from severe flu.

Reference

[accumulation of excess deaths per million] — OWID. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-deaths-per-million-covid

[excess death from the 2017/18 flu in Europe was 33.8 per 100,000] — Nielsen J, Vestergaard LS, Richter L, Schmid D, Bustos N, Asikainen T, Trebbien R, Denissov G, Innos K, Virtanen MJ, Fouillet A, Lytras T, Gkolfinopoulou K, Heiden MA, Grabenhenrich L, Uphoff H, Paldy A, Bobvos J, Domegan L, O'Donnell J, Scortichini M, de Martino A, Mossong J, England K, Melillo J, van Asten L, de Lange MM, Tønnessen R, White RA, da Silva SP, Rodrigues AP, Larrauri A, Mazagatos C, Farah A, Carnahan AD, Junker C, Sinnathamby M, Pebody RG, Andrews N, Reynolds A, McMenamin J, Brown CS, Adlhoch C, Penttinen P, Mølbak K, Krause TG. European all-cause excess and influenza-attributable mortality in the 2017/18 season: should the burden of influenza B be reconsidered? Clin Microbiol Infect. 2019 Oct;25(10):1266-1276. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2019.02.011. Epub 2019 Feb 18. PMID: 30790685. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30790685/