Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-covid forecasts

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 06:51:53 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/05/23/our-model-suggests-that-global-deaths-remain-5-above-pre-covid-forecasts>

"On May 5th the World Health Organisation declared an end to the covid-19
public-health emergency. Based on official mortality counts, this looked tardy.
By April 2022, average weekly death tolls had already fallen to the level of
March 2020.

Such tallies exclude deaths caused by covid but not attributed to it, however.
A better measure is excess mortality, the gap between the number of deaths from
all causes and the amount pre-covid trends would imply. For countries that do
not publish their total number of deaths, we have built a model to estimate the
excess.

This statistic also suggests that covid is killing at a slower, steadier pace
than in 2020-21. Yet endemic covid remains surprisingly deadly. Amid high
uncertainty, our central estimate for the world’s current total mortality rate
exceeds projections from 2019 by 5%, or 3m lives per year."

Via Violet Blue’s Pandemic Roundup: June 1, 2023
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-83895060

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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