Singapore is on to its second, deadly post-vaccination wave. Despite having kept infections to a minimum until after its vaccine rollout, the country now has the same level of excess mortality as Sweden.
Chile has a higher vaccination rate than the UK, and has administered more booster doses. Yet the country saw a major post-vaccination wave, which was even more deadly than its first wave back in June of 2020.
Two scientists in Denmark have written a newspaper article to show that excess mortality in their country during the pandemic was no better than in Sweden despite the Swedes not imposing lockdowns or heavy restrictions.
A study claims the vaccines saved 500,000 lives in the UK up to 8 December 2021. But this isn't plausible. The number of excess deaths in the first year of the pandemic (before vaccines) was only 76,000.
South Korea was the poster child for the 'contain and vaccinate' strategy. However, it now has the same excess mortality as Sweden, and almost all South Korea's deaths occurred after the vaccine rollout.
South Korea has one of the world's highest vaccination rates. Yet by the end of March, mortality was 67% higher than normal – a greater increase than France saw during the first wave, before anyone was vaccinated.
Once you take into account that non-Covid excess mortality is skewed heavily towards the old, the estimate of vaccine mortality in the over-75s exceeds one in 1,000 doses or 0.1%. Fourth doses are bearing this out.
More than 3,000 diabetics in England may have died due to a lack of health checks during the first year of Covid, a major NHS study warns.
Lockdown-loving states New York and California are among the worst overall pandemic performers while freedom-loving states Florida and South Dakota are among the best, new research by a leading US think tank has found.
Data from New Zealand show the vaccinated are up to six times more likely to be infected than the unvaccinated, casting further doubt on the efficacy of the vaccines.
