COVID-19 is said to affect the elderly most severely, but as a percentage, the 25-44 age group has suffered the most excess deaths since the pandemic began in March, 2020.
The large excess is unexplained. While higher mortality for 25-44 year-olds coincided with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, 2020, it has not been dominated by seasonal waves like infection counts and mortality for the elderly. This non-seasonal pattern indicates non-COVID causes.
What is the reason for the new normal of high baseline US excess mortality among 25-44 year-olds? Massachusetts (with 14% excess in this age group) shows that far lower mortality than the national average of 42% is possible. A recent long article about the phenomenon could be summarized as “we don’t know”, but it only briefly touches on the delicate subject of iatrogenic harm. Medical care appears to have deteriorated during the past two years, and even before COVID one study found:
440,000 PAEs [preventable adverse events] that contribute to the death of patients each year from care in hospitals. This is roughly one-sixth of all deaths that occur in the United States each year. The problem of PAEs must emerge from behind the “Wall of Silence” and be addressed for the sake of prolonging the lives of Americans.
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[A visitor from Gato Malo] I did my own calculations using dowloaded data from my State (FL). It's easy to see that the age cohort 25-44 has the greatest excess mortality in both 2020 and 2021 (so at least it's not all the vaccine fault! 🤪) The jumps are not unique to those ages, for example (10-14) took a big jump in 2020, but not 2021.
The Florida data seem to show that by quite a margin, the biggest hike in excess deaths (average of 2020 and 2021) is in the 25-41 age group. To me, this seems quite counter-intuitive, as people tend to be their healthiest then (adults; children probably even better).
Submitted for your consideration, make of it what you may.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1il9cncZ4AXWpNjRs8PD0Gvu8mCYSz7b0/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116868447120532464762&rtpof=true&sd=true
My first suspicion goes to governments’ reaction to the virus.