🚨New peer-reviewed study on New Zealand excess mortality destroys multiple COVID myths!
Key points:
✅New Zealand had negative excess mortality in 2020 due to suppression of COVID-19 & the reduction in other respiratory diseases including influenza.
Claims that "Covid deaths replaced flu deaths" are refuted by New Zealand which had only 52 COVID deaths before 2022.
Claims that "Covid deaths only rose when testing, panic & lockdowns started" are refuted by New Zealand which had historic negative excess in 2020.
Claims that "Viruses don't exist" are refuted by New Zealand which only saw a reduction in mortality when the country closed borders leading to lab confirmed eradication of multiple diseases.
✅ New Zealand had negative excess mortality in 2021. During this time more than 10 million vaccine doses were distributed.
Claims that the "Covid vaccine caused excess mortality" are refuted by New Zealand where excess timing had no correlation to vaccination.
✅ Mortality rose in New Zealand in 2022 & 2023 after they ended their elimination strategy & the Omicron variant became established.
"The magnitude, timing & age-distribution of the excess closely matched those of Covid-19-attributed deaths.
This suggests that the bulk of the excess in 2022–23 was directly attributable to Covid-19, either as an underlying or a contributory cause of death."
Claims that "Covid doesn't exist or "Covid was not the main driver of excess" during the pandemic are refuted by New Zealand where excess only rose when Covid surged in the country during 2022.
Conclusion:
"Negative excess mortality in 2020–21 reflects very low levels of Covid-19 and major reductions in seasonal respiratory diseases during this period.
In 2022–23, Covid-19 deaths were the main contributor to excess mortality & there was little or no net non-Covid-19 excess.
Overall, New Zealand experienced one of the lowest rates of pandemic excess mortality in the world."
More bad news for the "vaccines are killing millions" crowd!
Researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health conducted a comprehensive registry study examining all-cause mortality between vaccinated & unvaccinated from the entire population in Norway, over 4.6 million people.
In all age groups, the rate of death was lowest among those were fully vaccinated & highest among those that were unvaccinated.
All-cause mortality was 24–30% lower for those who had received at least three doses compared to those who had not received a single dose.
Each individual was counted as vaccinated from the date of vaccination. Unvaccinated only includes those who never received a single dose.
Link to the study & the report from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health:
The main weakness of the study is adjusting for HVE, or healthy vaccine effect. This confounding variable would likely account for some, but not all, of the differential between the groups.
This is why we see the mortality difference far higher than the Covid mortality rate for each age group.
In the end this isn't a vaccine effectiveness study but stands as more evidence the vaccines didn't cause a rise in all-cause mortality as many still believe.
Pre-vaccination, each year in the USA measles led to:
• 400-500 deaths
• 48,000 hospitalizations
• 1,000 cases of encephalitis (swelling of the brain)
And other long-term complications like deafness, immune amnesia & some even died from SSPE years later.
Before 1963, approximately 500,000 cases were reported annually, with epidemic cycles every 2–3 years.
In the years following licensure of vaccine in 1963, the incidence of measles decreased by more than 95%, and 2–3-year epidemic cycles no longer occurred.
Because of this success, a 1978 Measles Elimination Program set a goal to eliminate indigenous measles by October 1, 1982 (26,871 cases were reported in 1978).
The 1982 elimination goal was not met, but in 1983, only 1,497 cases were reported (0.6 cases per 100,000 population), the lowest annual total ever reported up to that time
Some facts about measles:
1⃣ Ear infections occur in about one out of every 10 children with measles and can result in permanent hearing loss.
2⃣ As many as 1 out of every 20 children with measles gets pneumonia, the most common cause of death from measles in young children.
3⃣ About one child out of every 1,000 who get measles will develop encephalitis (swelling of the brain) that can lead to convulsions and can leave the child deaf or with intellectual disability.
4⃣ For every 1,000 children who get measles, one or two will die from it.
5⃣ Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a very rare, but fatal disease of the central nervous system that results from a measles virus infection acquired earlier in life.
SSPE generally develops 7 to 10 years after a person has measles, even though the person seems to have fully recovered from the illness.
6⃣ Immune amnesia. Measles can weaken immunity vs other infections for years after illness.
What about the death rate?
The measles death rate has always been about 1 in 1,000.
In the last big US outbreaks between 1989-1992 there were 57,859 cases of measles during this time, and 127 deaths, working out to almost exactly 2 deaths per 1000 cases of measles.
Europe in 2011: 26,000 cases and a death rate of around 1 per 3000, but varied highly by country. France bore the brunt with a death rate of around 1 per 2300.
Europe in 2017: Around one death per 1200 cases in Italy, and one death per four hundred cases throughout the European Union.
Europe 2018-19: Over 100,000 cases and 90 deaths in 47 of 53 countries.
Samoa in 2019: 83 deaths, all children & babies.
More on the death rates of measles:
Before the introduction of measles vaccine in 1963 major epidemics occurred approximately every two to three years around the world and caused an estimated 2.6 million deaths each year.
Accelerated immunization activities successfully prevented millions of deaths between 2000–2021.
Vaccination decreased measles deaths from 761,000 in 2000 to 128,000 in 2021.
However an estimated 128,000 people still died from measles in 2021 – mostly children under the age of five years, despite the availability of a safe and cost-effective vaccine.
Those against vaccines love to show MORTALITY rates of diseases in the USA before vaccines came along while intentionally hiding MORBIDITY rates.
Death is not the only consequence of being infected with a preventable disease like measles.
And cases did not go down & STAY DOWN until vaccines arrived.
"From the 138 randomized and non-randomised studies included in the review, 51 studies (10 million children) assessed how effective the vaccines were at preventing the diseases, and 87 studies (13 million children) assessed harms.
One dose of vaccine was 95% effective in preventing measles. After two doses, effectiveness was similar at around 96%."