Thursday, November 9th, 2023, 9:53 am
International Excess Deaths Remain High
In the news today:
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Covid and flu patient numbers in hospitals grow
The spread of Covid-19 is seasonally increasing in Latvia, with more and more patients also ending up in hospitals. Similarly, circulation of type A influenza virus has started and the intensity of flu spread is slightly increasing, according to last week’s monitoring data of the Disease Prevention and Control Center (SPKC).
Description in case they take down the video (as they often do):
Our world in data
ourworldindata.org/
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-average-baseline
ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
Excess mortality is a term used in epidemiology and public health that refers to the number of deaths from all causes during a crisis above and beyond what we would have expected to see under ‘normal’ conditions
Excess deaths =
Reported deaths – Expected deathshttps://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid#excess-mortality-our-data-sources
The Human Mortality Database is maintained by a team of researchers based at the University of California, Berkeley, USA and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany.