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 March 14, 2021, excess mortality levels were at 1% — even though only 2% of Americans had been vaccinated by the end of January.
By the end of March, only 15% had been vaccinated. Yet the mortality not had continued to drop, but was then below the 2015-2019 levels.
“If we consider the more recent case and death totals attributed to covid, we see few signs of a new surge,” Mises Wire said.
SOURCES:
Mises Wire May 12, 2021
Our World in Data May 2, 2021