death rates from “respiratory infections” skyrocketed in 2020, but death rates for almost every other category also rose “mildly”.

The causes of death that rose:

  • cardiovascular
  • neuropsychiatric
  • unintentional injury
  • digestive
  • intentional injury

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rate-by-cause-who-mdb

deaths from digestive disease was about 18.75/100k pre-pandemic, and went up to 24/100k in 2021. So digestive deaths increased by about 28% after COVID started hitting.

Also worth mentioning that for every additional person who dies of X, there are dozens, hundreds, thousands of additional people suffering from X

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    12 days ago

    Yup, especially bad if you live in a country with not so tight nit family structures and predatory healthcare system