Australia: Excess deaths in 2022 'incredibly high' at 13 percent
It’s going to be really interesting for epidemiologists to analyze all this data.<p>“Covid deaths” is an incredibly subjective data point and it’s clear countries don’t all measure it the same.<p>But deaths are deaths, so comparing “excess mortality” during and after Covid will give a much more objective picture of how different approaches worked.<p>But it will be important to look at excess mortality for years <i>after</i> Covid.  As the article points out, if restrictions limited access to medical care (or just caused people to delay seeking it) the ramifications will take years to show up.