I'm starting to think that we might see waves of deaths of increasing amplitude over time. People appear to have permanently damaged immune systems and to be getting progressively weaker. Thus normal waves of infection passing through could claim successively greater numbers of casualties.
Australia had a jump in deaths in Jan-Feb 2022, which at the time I associated with the booster campaign in late 2021.
We'll have to wait and see whether we get another wave and how high it goes. People are still boosting here, but not to the same extent. Perhaps deaths will become disconnected from recent booster rates due to damage already done.
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Re: Relation Coronavirus prevalence and excess mortality
Date: 2023-01-07 07:02 am (UTC)I'm starting to think that we might see waves of deaths of increasing amplitude over time. People appear to have permanently damaged immune systems and to be getting progressively weaker. Thus normal waves of infection passing through could claim successively greater numbers of casualties.
Australia had a jump in deaths in Jan-Feb 2022, which at the time I associated with the booster campaign in late 2021.
We'll have to wait and see whether we get another wave and how high it goes. People are still boosting here, but not to the same extent. Perhaps deaths will become disconnected from recent booster rates due to damage already done.