Plotting vaccination rates and CV19 death rates of the 20 countries which currently have the highest daily CV19 death rates according to Our World in Data….
A short thread exploring CV19 in the context of age-standardised mortality rate.
The first graphic compares 3 different mortality metrics:- Total Deaths, Deaths Per 100K and Age Standardised Mortality Rate (ASMR). Have added lines simulating a doubling of CV19 deaths.
Note that the relative increase in the ASMR, due to CV19, is far lower than the other two metrics. This is due to a combination of three factors... 1. The ASMR calculation has a lower weighting for deaths in the 64+ age groups. The higher the age group the lower the weighting.
2. The higher the age group, the higher the death rate due to CV19