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Our paper on @WHO excess mortality associated with Covid-19 now on @Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…

Please read it and the associated coverage, we aimed to make it as sound and widely understandable as possible.

some important highlights:

#poptwitter #epitwitter #econtwitter Image
It's often argued that in the absence of all-cause-mortality data to directly estimate excess deaths, we should rely on the officially reported covid-19 data. This is false, as we explain here Image
It is high time that countries, regions and the world report all-cause-mortality in (as close to) real time as possible.
This will help prevent future outbreaks from evolving to an epidemic and then a pandemic.
Vital Registration is VITAL. Image
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Russia at 1.04 MILLION excess deaths since March 2020, which is about 240% higher than their reported COVID-19 deaths.

This is 1st place worldwide (for countries with data) in absolute excess mortality, 2nd place on per capita terms and 9th on p-score.

#poptwitter #epitwitter
For an in-depth regional analysis of excess mortality in Russia (Up to November 2021), see:
github.com/dkobak/excess-…

and the accompanying @signmagazine paper:
rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…
#WorldMortality data and estimates for 116 countries around the world are free and open for all.

github.com/akarlinsky/wor…
github.com/dkobak/excess-…

For an in-depth discussion of methods and results see our @eLife paper:
doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…
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תמותה עודפת, אורלי (@OrlyVilnai) וגיא נגד הצינור (@guylerer @Bar_ShemUr):
- אורלי: "... שוודיה... כפול זקנים מאיתנו, כל שנה מתים שם בסביבות 90 אלף איש, אצלנו 45 אלף איש, אצלם מתו 15 אלף מהקורונה ב-2020, אצלנו 7000".

- עובדות: עד סוף 2020 נפטרו 8700 שוודים מקורונה. 3300 ישראלים.
זו דוגמה מצוינת למשהו שהרבה אנשים שוכחים: לקורונה לא אכפת שחגגנו שנה חדשה ולוח השנה התחלף. היא לא נגמרה ב-31.12.2020 והמשיכה ביתר שאת. גם בישראל, גם בשוודיה ובעוד מדינות רבות (למשל ברזיל והודו), מתו הרבה יותר אנשים ב-2021 מקורונה מאשר ב-2020.
- אורלי: "התמותה העודפת ב-2020 ביחס לשנים קודמות, אצלנו 6.5% אצלם 1.5%".

- עובדות: בשנת 2020 הלשכה הסטטיסטית השוודית @StatsSweden דיווחה על 98 אלף נפטרים. בישראל הלמס @lamas_dovrut דיווח על 48,768 נפטרים.
לפי ההשוואה של אורלי עצמה, זה יוצא 9% עודפת בשוודיה ו-8.5% בישראל.
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עדכון #WorldMortality

מאמץ הרואי של האקרים בבלארוס להשיג נתוני תמותה עד למרץ 2021. הממשל הפסיק לפרסם נתוני כאלה אחרי אמצע 2020 שכבר בהם ראו תמותה עודפת משמעותית. דיווח של @CurrentTimeTv שסייענו לו.

היחס בין התמותה העודפת (יותר מ-32 אלף) לתמותה המדווחת מקורונה הוא פי 14.

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זהו כמעט בדיוק אותתו יחס כפי שמצאנו כאשר היו לנו רק נתונים רשמיים עד יוני 2020.

מאז, הממשל שם דחה כמה פעמים ללא הסבר פרסום נתוני תמותה. הדיווח של @CurrentTimeTv מאשש את מה שרבים ידעו כבר מזמן: דיווחי הקורונה של בלארוס מזויפים לחלוטין. @YurkaGagarin


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בלארוס מדווחת נפטרי קורונה - לעולם לא דיווחה על יותר מ-10 נפטרים ביממה.

זה אפילו לא זיוף טוב. כל זה נעשה בשביל לחזק את התדמית של הדיקטטור לוקאשנקו כמי ש"לא חושב בכלל על בחירות... הוא דואג רק לבריאות האזרחים, יום, ערב ואפילו בלילה".

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#WorldMortality update

Heroic effort by hackers in Belarus to obtain mortality data up to March 2021 as reported by @CurrentTimeTv.
The govt refused to publish after it showed massive excess in Mid 2020.
Excess is 14x times higher than reported COVID at over 32K excess

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This is ~exactly the same ratio as we reported with data up to June 2020.
The govt had since postponed without explanation scheduled releases of mortality data. @CurrentTimeTv reveals what many knew all along: COVID numbers from Belarus are as fake as fake can be.

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Daily reported number of COVID deaths in Belarus - capped at 10.
It's not even good forgery. All to serve Lukashenko's image "...he was not involved in election campaign at all. He was concerned with the health and life of people. morning, afternoon, evening, and night"

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Excess mortality across the world with the World Mortality Dataset - officially published at @eLife!

elifesciences.org/articles/69336

A thread on data, findings, and more.

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(Illustration by Gal Kabiri)
Excess mortality - increase of the all-cause mortality expected mortality based on historic trends, has long been used to estimate the death toll of pandemics and other extreme events. From the 17th century at least up to more recent events like Hurricane Maria in 2017.

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No matter how estimate are made, they require data on all cause mortality. In #WorldMortality Dataset we have collected data from over 100 countries and territories from all corners of the world.

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More estimates of excess mortality in India coming out. This time from @JustinSandefur @arvindsubraman @abhishekecon.
How do these compare with other countries in #WorldMortality? It goes right up the "leaderboard" as you can see.

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Low or high estimate, India total excess mortality is much higher than the previous top (US) at 3.4 or 4.9 MILLION excess deaths.

But India is HUGE. @UNStats population estimate at over 1.38 BILLION people -> high excess per pop size, goes down to 9th place. low: 24th.

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The undercount ratio, excess deaths divided by official reported COVID death counts for the same time period (end of June 2021 in this case) is very high in these estimates for India: 8.5 to 12.25 times officially reported deaths (~400 thousand). 6-7th place.

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@IHME_UW just released a report estimating excess deaths at about 2x total COVID deaths in the world.

The details of the analysis are here: healthdata.org/special-analys…

While important and prob true, I'm left with quite a few questions about this particular estimate.

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Their data comes form "56 countries and 198 subnational units have reported either weekly or monthly deaths from all causes for parts of 2020 and for prior years. " but where is it? The References listed are scant and include a few NSOs.

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After estimating excess deaths with some ensemble models for the countries they do have, they project it using various covariates to other countries. But which are projections and which are actual data? unclear.

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Updated version of #WorldMortality by @hippopedoid and I is up on @medrxivpreprint.

doi.org/10.1101/2021.0…

Many updates, check it out.
Here are some highlights:

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Our coverage increased from 79 countries and territories in the previous version to 89 and the time frame covered increased substantially, with many countries already reporting 2021 data.

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We extended the introduction a bit, showcasing the vast historical usage of excess mortality in epidemiology - this method is not new at all and is extremely well established.

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