excess-mortality
2 stories tagged "excess-mortality"
Infectious Disease
Czech Trust in Government Fell to 19 Percent. Eight to Ten Weeks Later, the Death Rate Pulled Away from Austria's.
A populist government overstated its testing, cycled through health ministers, and governed by press conference. Czechs stopped believing it, and a new analysis ties that collapse of faith to a death rate that ran roughly twice the European average.
Infectious DiseaseFive Years After COVID, Japan Is Still Dying at Pandemic Rates, and Confirmed COVID Explains Only a Tenth
Japan's excess deaths peaked at 7.55 percent in 2022 and still ran at 5.76 percent through 2023, after Tokyo downgraded COVID to a routine infectious disease, in one of the most heavily mRNA-dosed countries on earth.