The “incredibly high” excess death rate in 2022 should be urgently investigated by the Government, Australia’s top actuarial body has said.
According to new analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data by the Actuaries Institute, there were 15,400 excess deaths during the first eight months of the year, with around one third having no link to Covid.
This is 13% higher than expected, which is an “incredibly high number for mortality” according to Karen Cutter, spokeswoman for the institute’s COVID-19 Mortality Working Group. It is “not clear” what is driving the increase, she said. “Mortality doesn’t normally vary by more than 1-2%, so 13% is way higher than normal level.”
“I’m not aware [of anything comparable] in the recent past but I haven’t gone back and looked [historically]. They talk about the flu season of 2017 being really bad, and the mortality there was 1% higher than normal. So it’s well outside the range of normal.”
According to the raw data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, there were 128,797 deaths from January 1st to August 31st, which was 18,671 or 17% higher than the historical average. Of those, 7,727 or 41% were attributed to Covid, leaving 10,944 non-Covid excess deaths.
The reason for the difference between the raw ABS data and the actuary figures is that, unlike with ONS data in the U.K. which use a five-year average baseline, the actuaries use a modelled baseline for calculating excess deaths. This aims to take into account trends like an ageing and growing population and improving health outcomes. The actuaries acknowledge that, compared to using the 2015-19 baseline, this results in a higher baseline and thus fewer excess deaths.
The Actuaries Institute found that around 8,200 deaths, or just over half the excess, were due to Covid as underlying cause and a further 2,100 deaths were ‘with’ Covid as a contributory cause. They added the two together to give their final figure for non-Covid excess of 5,100, or around one third. Why they chose to include deaths where the underlying cause was not COVID-19 in the ‘Covid deaths’, and exclude them from the analysis of excess non-Covid deaths is not clear. Between that and the potentially mistaken raising of the baseline via modelling and the total number of excess deaths may be considerably and artificially diminished. The effect is to cut the proportion of excess deaths that are non-Covid almost in half, from 59% in the raw data to 33% in the actuaries’ analysis.
In any case, whatever the merits of these methods, the actuaries’ breakdown by cause of death is illuminating. According to the Actuaries Institute, 3,110 of the 8,010 non-Covid excess deaths were from “other unspecified” causes, which is 11% above the expected number, and 1,490 were from ischaemic heart disease, which is 17% above the expected number. Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) contributed 490 deaths, 8% above expected. Other cardiovascular causes were unfortunately not stated either by the actuaries or ABS, but were presumably included in the “other unspecified diseases”.
The actuaries state that deaths from respiratory disease other than COVID-19 have been significantly lower than expected throughout the pandemic (presumably owing to displacement by COVID-19). Cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke as a group have been the largest contributor to non-Covid excess deaths in 2021 and 2022, they state.
The high levels of excess deaths were seen across the country, with all states and territories having significant excess mortality in 2022. The exception was Northern Territory. Northern Territory has a population of just 250,000, and it is much younger than other states – the median age is six years lower, and just 5.6% are over 65, compared to 17.7% in New South Wales.
Excess deaths were seen in almost all age bands, though the percentage was higher in older groups. Karen Cutter said while the numbers of deaths in the 0-44 and 45-64 age bands were small, they were significantly higher than expected, particularly for females.
Ms. Cutter said it was “not clear what might be driving this” extreme increase in mortality, but partly it may be explained by the ‘dry tinder’ effect resulting from “less people dying from respiratory illness early on [compared with] what would have been pre-pandemic normal”.
She also suggested the deaths from diabetes, heart disease and stroke, were “highly related to Covid”, citing unspecified research.
She noted they are seeing “higher non-Covid deaths when there are Covid deaths”, such as in January and July, and suggested this could mean it is due to lack of access to healthcare or “more undiagnosed Covid than we know about”.
Vaccines blamed
The increase in heart and stroke deaths in particular has led many to suggest the Covid vaccines may be to blame. Earlier in the year, Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) countered this claim, telling ABC Fact Check that it was “false and unscientific to automatically conclude that vaccines caused these deaths. There is no credible evidence to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines have contributed to excess deaths in Australia or overseas.”
This is untrue, of course: there is plenty of evidence from autopsies and other sources that the vaccines can kill, including silently and suddenly by triggering auto-immune attacks on the heart that can only be identified at autopsy. Their role thus cannot be ruled out without proper investigation.
Ms. Cutter even admitted that she “cannot prove” the vaccines are not involved, albeit as part of a denial that they are: “There is zero evidence that vaccines are causing these deaths as far as I’m concerned, but I cannot prove it.”
She argued that even if the 947 deaths in the TGA’s most recent safety report were confirmed to be linked to the vaccine (the TGA has to date only confirmed 14 as linked), it would only be a fraction of the total excess deaths. This doesn’t allow for under-reporting of vaccine injuries, though, of course.
She also claimed the timing of the excess deaths “doesn’t match with the vaccine rollout, and the age profile of people dying does not match with people who’ve been vaccinated”.
“Hardly any young people are dying,” she said. She also said there was no excess mortality in Western Australia in January and they were “just as vaccinated as the rest of the country”.
However, this doesn’t allow for people dying some weeks or months after their injection, perhaps due to an auto-immune attack triggered by a new challenge from the virus. It also doesn’t allow that vaccine deaths may be concentrated in older people with related co-morbidities. In addition, it overlooks that there are indeed excess deaths in younger people, as Ms. Cutter has acknowledged.
Zachary Stieber at Epoch Times has compiled a useful list of autopsy evidence from post-vaccine deaths.
In 2021, U.S. researchers reported two adults developed myocarditis within two weeks of COVID-19 vaccination, and they were unable to find causes other than vaccination.
In 2021, South Korea researchers reported that after examining the death of a 22-year-old man who died five days after receiving the Pfizer vaccine, they determined the primary cause was “myocarditis, causally-associated” with the vaccine.
In January, New Zealand researchers reported that the Pfizer vaccine was probably responsible for sudden myocarditis that led to the death of a 57-year-old woman, writing that “other causes have been discounted with reasonable certainty”.
In February, researchers in several U.S. states reported that two teenage boys who died shortly after receiving Pfizer’s vaccine experienced heart inflammation and that the inflammation was the primary cause of death.
In May, CDC researchers reported that a young boy died after experiencing post-vaccination heart inflammation, with myocarditis being pegged as the cause of death.
In September, a German researcher reported that a 55-year-old who died four months after receiving the Pfizer vaccine died of myocarditis and said “these findings indicate that myocarditis, as well as thrombo-embolic events following injection of spike-inducing gene-based vaccines, are causally associated with a[n] injurious immunological response to the encoded agent.”
And just recently, Japanese researchers reported on results from a 27-year-old man who died 28 days after admission following vaccination.
In addition, a German case report of an autopsy conducted on a 76-year-old man who died three weeks after receiving his third COVID-19 vaccination found the presence of spike protein but not the nucleocapsid protein in the deceased man’s brain and heart, proving that the vaccine (which unlike the virus only produces the spike protein) was the cause of the deadly inflammation.
More recently, a report on a series of German autopsies found the vaccine was likely responsible for three deaths from myocarditis and possibly responsible for two others. A further 20 deaths from cardiovascular causes were not determined one way or the other.
Many countries around the world are reporting high excess deaths during 2022 from mainly cardiovascular and unknown causes which remain unexplained. In Ireland, leading politician Peadar Tóibín has called for an investigation into excess deaths after they hit 17% over the summer.
The latest data from England and Wales show that there have now been 25,918 excess non-Covid deaths since April. In the week ending November 25th, the most recent week for which figures are available, there were 11,483 deaths, which is 778 or 7.3% above the five-year average, according to figures from the ONS. Of these, 215 are due to Covid (as underlying cause) leaving 563 from an underlying cause other than COVID-19. A possible link with the vaccine booster campaigns may be observed in the charts below, which show booster vaccinations and deaths by date of occurrence.
As the weight of evidence that the vaccines can kill, suddenly and silently – even weeks and months after administration – accumulates, the blanket denials that they are playing any role in the global trend of excess deaths ring increasingly hollow. The need for a proper investigation remains as urgent as ever.
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If it’s so consistently hard to show a significant benefit from these “vaccines” using trial and real world data, and so consistently easy to come up with concerning statistics regarding excess deaths NOT from covid, post the “vaccine” rollout, and we are spending globally trillions on a treatment not yet finished standard safety trials, and badgering healthy people at no danger from “covid” into taking them, this is folly and evil and it must stop.
It must stop …. but it won’t. Even if you ignore the “conspiracy theories” that this is a planned event with pre-determined outcomes, the Public Health Bureaucrats and Government’s who have used Psy Ops techniques to push these jabs have the tiger by the tail ……. and they don’t dare let go.
They will continue the narrative and the jabbing, because the consequences of the alternative for the Globalists is too awful for them to contemplate.
The alternative that they have to avoid is being arrested and thrown in jail or perhaps more likely that they end up strung from lamp posts.
Like trench warfare in WWI.
Out of control and out.of touch generals continued to throw bodies at guns even when it was obvious to everyone that it would achieve nothing.
If they admit they are wrong they pay a heavy price themselves. If they deny they are wrong and ignore reality, others pay the price.
Obviously they’ll do the latter if they are allowed to.
Agreed. The Pfizer trials showed an alleged relative risk reduction (RRR) of over 90% in catching COVID. Out of the huge number of people (43,000) in the compressed (I might say rushed) trial, just 94 people caught COVID, or I assume, tested positive. Yes, just 0.22% caught the disease. Luck and natural immunity saved the other 99.8% – anyway, that’s an aside according to Pfizer.
This RRR was above the threshold needed for emergency approval (60%?) so off we go.
Except it soon became very clear that the vaccine was doing diddly squat to prevent you catching COVID so they changed their tune from preventing infection/catching COVID to reducing serious illness.
At this point, any mandates around isolating unvaccinated should have been dropped. In fact, as we now suspect, the vaccinated are more likely to catch COVID therefore we should restrict them – more infectious and more of them. Of course, that will never happen.
But it’s now equally clear that the RRR of the vaccine is nowhere near 60% and therefore emergency approval should be removed. The fact that RRR is negative is just too much of a head wobble for the converted so let’s not bang on too much about that.
None of this will happen because if would mean government, health and pharma would have to admit they were wrong. We can’t go after pharma as they managed to remove liability so government and NHS must be in the firing line?
PS. And now according to this article, even reducing serious illness is questionable. So why do friends still struggle when I say I’m not having the booster until much more convincing arguments are given? Although more and more friends are saying the same so there is light at the end of the tunnel.
However, the MSM will not comment on this or any other piece of research that show the jabs in a poor light.
When will governments and sheeple of the world wake up?
The DM states that there is a jab waiting for those over 50’s now, the comments say different
This was also in the Telegraph yesterday…all of the comments were ‘anti’ and within an hour the entire comments section had been, not just closed, but entirely erased!
Always a good sign you’re onto something if the enemy tries to silence you
That’s such a common thing with the DT. Or often they contrive to ‘lose’ hundreds of comments. I have had posts removed very swiftly for making critical comments about the vaccine. It is also a popular haunt of ’77th brigade’ type trolls. However I also find it heartening that the vast majority of btl comments are in line with Daily Sceptic sentiments, and some are very amusing.
Exactly same with the Daily Mail online.
And, apart from the ability to think critically it seems we have a sense of humour when compared to, especially, the G******n type readers comments.
Also until recently the Telegraph used to display all of the comments on one page but now you can only ‘load’ a certain number before you have to hit load again. A sneaky way of disappearing them into obscurity.
Gates Foundation grant to Telegraph last year: 3.4 million.
It’s gone way too far now and they won’t wake up as most people don’t even consider for a moment there is anything to wake up from. The majority will always believe we have had (still having) a pandemic, lockdowns were necessary and worked, anti-social distancing were necessary and worked, masks were necessary and worked, testing was necessary and worked, vaccines were necessary and worked. Even if they could be bothered to read every article on this site they wouldn’t change their minds as they have invested too much into believing the official narrative. To them, the ‘pandemic’ and ‘lockdown’ were unavoidable events and every sacrifice was worth it.
Yes, but they won’t take another jab.
They’ll go along with the BS right up to the point where the price of self delusion is too high.
BUT the dragon just gets bigger so the global elites who have caused all of this! will have to face it in the end. And us.
This information seems to be giving weight to those who say, ‘because it only lasts 12 months’ and then you are in the negative risk, you have no choice not to keep topping up’ this will be the global elites new manta.
AND the dragon will just get bigger because people will as they already have, fall for it.
My friends will say to each other ‘great it lasted a year but now we are at risk, have you taken yours yet Maria’ and I will tell them nicely again I am not ever taking it. Ever.
I like your use of the word dragon. This whole story is like a fairytale. The people of the land have fallen under a great enchantment wrought by a group of evil sorcerers and are yet to wake up despite the heroic attempts of a few. In the meantime, as you say, the dragon grows bigger. How will it end?
I notice more and more, if it comes up in conversation, and I say, as I always do, that it is all a load of testicles (whether it’s covid or climate change), I more often than not get a nod of assent, and a ‘yes, it is, isn’t it?’ response. I find it quite cheering. Mind, I am of an age now that I don’t really care anymore if people disagree with me or if I offend them. What does worry me though is how little some people know about what has been happening – the Canadian truckers were a case in point. I think some people thought I had made it up!
Bless the Canadian truckers yes
Linguistic malarkey? “Negative effectiveness” would, in a sane world, be interpreted as “grievous bodily harm (GBH), would it not?
I am tremendously glad that there are analysts and statisticians who can unpick this data in detail…..
But as an ordinary person I sometimes feel it goes over my head….
…..this kind of thing resonates with me on a much easier and honest level. If you can’t access the picture, and I hope you can, it’s a giant road-side hoarding in Italy stating….
June 23rd 2020…0% vaxxed …112 new Covid cases
June 23rd 2021…50% vaxxed ..951 new Covid cases
June 23rd 2022…70% vaxxed…56,166 new Covid cases
HOW DO WE BELIEVE IT?
https://twitter.com/risemelbourne/status/1548072036307972096/photo/1
The head of the MHRA gave the game away in an interview that was picked up on DS and others. These ‘regulators’ are no longer regulating new products instead they are now advocates for them. I have no doubt that the same bodies in most other countries have been similarly captured.
As the article points out these studies are most conveniently designed to promote booster shots. What a suprise!!!!
However, for anyone unvaccinated surely having a booster shot now is equivalent to having a first shot which the various reports show to lead to negative efficacy. So, hardly likely to persuade anyone unvaxxed to take a shot now.
And with regards booster shots, surely they have not been in the population long enough to show their true effects over the same period that first and second doses have.
Finally, the studies of course ignore any adverse events related to the vaccines, which the pro vaccine establishment continues to remain in complete and scandalous denial. Again, suprise suprise!!!
If people can’t smell a rat by now, they must have totally lost their sense of smell (probably caused by the vaccine…)!
I have spent about 45 minutes sampling some of the output from people who are no doubt paid by ******* to debunk any criticism of official data. It’s not difficult to see why they prostitute themselves to such a cause.
When these injections were chosen by the criminals wishing to impose their new slave system, I wonder if their limited window of efficacy was a selling point, so that a regime of regular injections was required? ‘Waning efficacy’ seems to be a term the enemy likes to use in its propaganda. Either way, as we all know none of this is anything to do with protecting anyone from anything. Rather, an open-ended economy of asymmetrical biological warfare against all ordinary humans.
Early on Mick Yeadon said it won’t be the 1st shot or possibly not the 5th but once your hooked one of them will be the killer shot. If we’re going down the dystopian depopulation route.
At the beginning I was trying to persuade people not to get vaccinated. (The lazy ‘you’re not a doctor’.) Now it’s got to the point where I don’t want to discuss jabs with anyone, because what I will tell them will be to horrific for them to contemplate. I’ve moved onto the over all bigger picture, hopefully they can do their own research into what they’ve done to them selves.
Same. My answers to the question “why aren’t you vaccinated?” tend to alarm:
My stock response these days is “why don’t you tell me why I should?”. People used to proffer arguments like “to reduce spread” but these days they can’t as nobody is that stupid. They can’t tell me “to lower your risk of hospitalisation” as I’ve had covid twice and it’s a cold – never got a fever even (whcih is common after the vaccine.
They can’t even say “to travel” any more, unless it’s the states, Canada or NZ. I’m not so desperate to go to those places I will undergo an unnecessary medical procedure to do so. I have principles.
So people now tend to shrug and say “fair enough”. Which is a shame as I quite relish a good fight from time to time. Especially when I know I will win because ALL the data are on my side.
Good news for the drug-pusher then. Get the punter hooked on a drug of which they constantly need another dose.
Loadsamoney ££££ for Big Vax.
Until they runout of punters…..
The charts I find interesting in the Dutch VE report are on page 5 and 6 – they are graphs for hospital admissions and ICU admissions. Graph A shows the actual number, with different coloured lines showing vaxx status (red is unvaxxed). For all ages unvaxxed and 2x/3x/4x vax are pretty much the same or unvaxxed is lower – indeed, chart A for hospital admissions in 70+ (by far the largest group admitted to hospital through the entire pandemic) has more admissions of 3x and 4x vaxxed from approx. mid-May on. However, look at graphs B and C – there they represent the admissions per 100,000 of each group, trying to make the unvaxxed look like the worst off group. They succeeded in that the first time they did it, but even that trick no longer works, unvaxxed is more or less the same as all other groups or better.
Graph A for ICU admissions is even more interesting – the time period covered starts on 15 March 2022. Between what looks like the last week of March and the first week of April (the graph is not very specific), the largest group in 50-69 and 70+ admitted to ICU by far are the boostered (3x). Now, either that shows that the booster puts you at greater risk of serious disease 3 – 4 months after being boostered (these groups were boostered Nov/Dec 2021) or they were in fact 4x vaxxed (started end of Feb. for 70+, end of March for 60+) and are counted as 3x vaxxed because you are not considered 4x vaxxed until a week after vaxxing. Either way, it looks to me that being unvaxxed puts you at no greater risk than being vaxxed in terms of being admitted to hospital, and may well entail a lower risk of ending up in ICU than being 3x vaxxed, depending on the time between vax and infection.
And is it possible that those who do not want to take part in the trial are actually in a better state of health in the first place? It would gel with the indication that they are less likely to be seriously ill from the infection under consideration, and, in effect, immune to the risks caused by the product being promoted.
Lost to Liverpool yesterday in the pitch but beat hands down on avoiding the clot shot
Crystal Palace leave stars Wilfried Zaha, Eberechi Eze, Marc Guehi and Michael Olise at home and take just TEN senior players on their pre-season tour, with many ‘not meeting entry requirements’ for Covid vaccine-requiring Australia and Singapore
“…protection provided by vaccinations against hospitalisation diminishes over time.”
SO Y’ALL BETTER GET YOURSELVES JABBED AGAIN! AND AGAIN! AND AGAIN!