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Ben 🐭

@USMortality

Jul 24

Today I visited my home town club's season opening soccer match where two people collapsed.
A 19 year old player James Lawrence collapsed after the game, while a young male fan had to be re-animated.
I have probably visited 100 or so matches so far, and this has never happened!

I would say this is clearly not normal, two young males collapsing out of the blue. The temperature was hot, but clearly not unusual for Germany (32C).
Of course we do not know what the underlying condition is.
bnn.de/sport/ksc/bekl…

Still, it is extremely unusual that two young males collapse out of the blue...

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Ben 🐭

@USMortality

Jul 21

Weekly Germany All-Cause Mortality Update!
> YTD, same mortality as last year, but higher excess, due to decreasing baseline.
> There's also significantly less deaths in <30, which is strange, and could be caused by reporting delay..
#Covid #Covid19 #Corona #Coronavirus

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Ben 🐭

@USMortality

Jul 15

Totgeburten in 2021 steigen auf Rekordhoch in Deutschland!
> Im Jahr 2021 + 11.1% mehr Totgeburten, als noch im 3 Jahresdurchschnitt vor der Pandemie.
> Im ersten Pandemiejahr 2020 liegen die Zahlen allerdings auch im normalen Bereich und sogar unter dem Niveau von 2019!

Quelle: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Und nein, diese Veränderung ist wohl nicht durch eine Zunahme von Schwangerschaften zu erklären, da die Lebendgeurten nur ca 1,2% über dem Durchschnitt lagen:

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Ben 🐭

@USMortality

Jul 15

Governments around the world, still don't want to give up their COVID powers.
Currently world stringency is at 31%, maximum was at 81%.
2020 had an average of 52%, 2021 53% and 2022 so far 38%...

latest world map:

europe:

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Ben 🐭

@USMortality

Jul 14

Complete all-cause mortality data for Q2/2022 for Germany shows highest mortality since 2015.
> Excess Mortality at +7.2% for that quarter.
> That is +4.7% higher than in the first pandemic quarter in 2020.
#Covid #Covid19 #Corona #Coronavirus