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.
Sweden's Covid approach caused widespread outrage amongst mainstream commentators. Yet as the data continues to vindicate them, the outrage seems to have quietly died down, writes Nick Rendell.
Despite having third, fourth and fifth vaccination rates of 91%, 83%, and 56%, respectively, Japan's Covid death toll has never been higher, and many of the deaths are heart related, baffling the country's experts.
Why do more and more figures from around the world show the vaccinated suffering from more Covid and more sickness than the unvaccinated? Neville Hodgkinson looks at the latest data from Australia.
Non-respiratory mortality varies little from year to year, changing by just 1.3% in the six years from 2015-2020. However, 2021 has registered a 3.7% increase and 2022 is projected to show a catastrophic 10% increase.
It's hard to make sense of a policy that spends billions on lockdowns to 'save lives' while also assisting many of the same people to commit suicide.
