Tag: Covid deaths

The "carnage" in care homes as Covid hit and the vulnerable elderly were hastily discharged from hospital and isolated from proper care is laid bare in a new study.

The fear is being ramped up again as the WHO warns of "concerning trends" for COVID-19 ahead of winter with "increasing deaths" as the new BA.2.86 Pirola variant spreads. Run for the hills.

After Bronny James' cardiac arrest, leading doctors are insisting jabs are not to blame. But if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, chances are, it's a duck.

The New York Times has published an angry article blaming Ron DeSantis for the "steep cost" of his Covid response, despite having to admit Florida did better than the rest of the country.

If the vaccines saved lives, why were Florida's Covid waves no smaller after the rollout than before? The same can be said for Israel and Bahrain, while low-vaccination comparators often fared better.

The estimated total of excess non-respiratory deaths since March 2020 now stands at over 100,000, most of which have occurred since the vaccine rollout. This rise in core mortality is unprecedented in recent history.

Many assume that Covid vaccines saved millions of lives. However, public health expert Prof Eyal Shahar shows that once you correct for the 'healthy vaccinee' bias, vaccine effectiveness against death is around zero.

Flu largely disappeared during 2020 and 2021, giving rise to ideas among some sceptics that it was being missed and wrongly classified as Covid. However, influenza surveillance data confirm that it really did vanish.

The new ONS data on deaths by vaccination status seem to have a bias such that deaths in the unvaccinated are more likely to be included, whereas deaths in the vaccinated and are more likely to be excluded.

A growing number of sceptics have recently been questioning whether excess deaths during the pandemic were caused by the virus. Dr. Will Jones argues that the evidence they mostly were is impossible to ignore.