Our readers are a curious bunch. Thankfully, they do not take Governments’ statements lying down.
One particular reader who lives in Italy asked ISTAT (the Italian equivalent to the Office for National Statistics) what Italians of various age groups died from in recent years. The latest available data are from 2020. The 2021 data should be out by the end of the year. The delay is nothing unusual because of coding and the need to check the data. Nor is it surprising that 72,422 people of both genders died of or with Covid (whatever the attribution may mean).
What is noteworthy are the causes of death for people aged up to 40: 644 died of self-harm, 712 were killed in transport accidents and 508 died of other accidental injuries. 162 died of or with Covid.
So Father Christmas should have brought protective clothing and taken away any means of self-harm from knives to boot laces and rope. Instead, soon after he brought forward vaccines for all age groups. As there is no evidence that Covid vaccines interrupt transmission, in this case, from kiddo to granny, the question is: why?
Prof. Carl Heneghan is the Oxford Professor of Evidence Based Medicine and Dr. Tom Jefferson is an epidemiologist based in Rome who works with Professor Heneghan on the Cochrane Collaboration. This article was first published on their Substack, Trust The Evidence, which you can subscribe to here.
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