A mysterious insurance report says “excess mortality is rising” could it be the vaccines?
No. Virtually all the excess mortality is associated with COVID infections!
A debunking 🧵. 1/
Every few months, a myth of “unexplained deaths not from COVID” resurfaces.
Last time they claimed “young people” were inexplicably dying. Looking at the actual data it was pretty clear that virtually all the excess deaths under 45 were due to COVID.
In a later incarnation, this conspiracy theory revolved around a mysterious (and nameless) "insurance industry expert” & "former Wall Street analyst” who did his own analysis and “found an 84% increase in excess mortality."
Let’s look at the actual data:
If we look at weekly deaths of all cause, we can see five spikes above baseline in weekly deaths, each corresponding to a wave of the pandemic.
Source: CDC cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr… 4/
How much of the increase in mortality is due to COVID?
If we look at # of deaths/week, comparing weekly COVID deaths to total deaths. we can see the answer is almost all of it!
Example: Of the ~27k excess deaths in early 2021, ~26k were due to COVID! cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr… 5/
But we don’t have to look just at correlations, because Doctors put the cause of death on death certificates.
Looking at COVID associated deaths🟦vs non COVID deaths 🟩, we can see that virtually all of the excess mortality can been attributed to COVID infection!
Source: CDC 6/
This isn’t really surprising since COVID was the THIRD leading cause of death in the US in 2021. cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
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Not only do mortality spikes correlate with surges in COVID infections, they do NOT correlate with vaccinations.
Compare 3 lines: weekly excess Mortality ⬛, COVID cases 🟥, & vaccinations🟦
The correlation (R²) is higher for mortality⬛ & cases🟥. github.com/hmatejx/COVID_… 8/
If we look at that insurance report that Kory shared (and clearly didn’t read), we can see more evidence that vaccination *reduces* excess mortality.
Specifically excess mortality is HIGHEST in the places with the LOWEST vaccinations!
Source: soa.org/48ff80/globala… 9/
This too isn't surprising, we know that at this point in the pandemic the vast majority of COVID mortality occurs among unvaccinated people.
Source: Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/grapher/united… 10/
Summary:
-there IS a significant increase in excess mortality...due to COVID infection
-there IS NOT a temporal association between vaccines & excess mortality. In fact, quite the opposite: states with the highest vaccination rates had the lowest mortality #VaccinesWork
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77 yo with respiratory distress, RR 30, SpO2 80% on non-rebreather at 15 lpm
CXR & TTE are unrevealing
pH 7.58 / PaCO2 24 / PaO2 >500 / HCO3 22
MetHb 0% CarboxyHb 0%
The ABG looks like this:
The answer is sulfhemoglobinemia.
Sulfhemoglobinemia is a *permanently* modified hemoglobin associated with exposure to TMP/SMX, dapsone, phenazopyridine, & other amino & nitro compounds.
It has an altered oxy-hemoglobin dissociation curve.
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Sulfhemoglobinemia is easily confused with methemoglobinemia. Both have very dark colored blood & present with cyanosis. Diagnosis typically requires a specialized lab.
Spoiler: you may have heard that SulfHb is green. It isn’t really. You’re thinking of Vulcans’ blood.
Damn. Under Trump the White House Medical Unit was a pill-mill. Thousands of ambien & provigil per month.
Worse, for a clinic that doesn’t typically do procedures w/ moderate sedation they sure are they ordering prodigious quantities of morphine, fentanyl, versed, & ketamine…?
Honestly, this reminds me of Norman Ohler’s Blitzed.
The AG report was largely concerned with the enormous cost of prescribing these non-genetic meds.
It’s worth pointing out that dispensing prescription meds without documentation is malpractice. In the case of controlled substances it’s also likely a crime.
The long awaited #COVIDOUT RCT is now in @TheLancet:
- high risk adults randomized to either metformin (MET), ivermectin (IVM), fluvoxamine (FLV) or placebo.
- MET reduced the risk of long COVID (6.3% vs 10.4%; NNT = 24)
- no benefit with IVM or FLV