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COVID Deaths Plummet as Excess Mortality Falls to Prepandemic Levels

By the end of 2020, excess mortality during the pandemic had risen by 17% in all-cause deaths. That means it wasn’t all because of COVID, although COVID certainly contributed. Now, in May 2021, those deaths are going down. In fact, the excess mortality actually “began to plummet in early January and is now back to levels below the 2015-2019 average,” Mises Wire reported. The data were downloaded from Our World in data and the Human Mortality Database, and they show that by...