Excess deaths still high, what is going on

US and EU excess mortality persists in May 2023

Our world in data

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-average-baseline?country=~USA

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20230616-3

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20230714-2

May 2023, excess deaths, +2.9% (8,100 excess deaths)

Above the baseline period in 2016-2019)

April it was +3.3%

May 2022, 8% (31,100 excess deaths)

May 2021, 10.7% (48,700 excess deaths)

May 2020, 3.1% (9,700 excess deaths)

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/28july2023

Week ending 28 July 2023 (Week 30)

9,684 deaths registered in England and Wales

63 of these deaths mentioned novel coronavirus (COVID-19),

accounting for 0.7% of all deaths.

Of the 63 deaths involving COVID-19 in Week 30,

61.9% (39 deaths) had this recorded as the underlying cause of death

Deaths registered in the UK

Week 30 were 11,115

0.8% above the five-year average (91 excess deaths)

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