"there were 5,535 deaths in those younger than 65 years of age"
"There were 1,380 COVID-related deaths for that same age group"
Some of the non-covid deaths might be attributed to the stress of disruption caused by covid, so what the article appears to be saying is that without covid the number of those deaths would have been at least 25% lower.
Most, if not all, of that disruption was caused by the government, not the virus itself.
To be clear: in all pandemic planning, that every public health unit completes and had to complete in the years prior to 2020, locking your citizens down and closing their places of employment were NEVER options. Not even for the worst virus.
To be clear: in all pandemic planning, that every public health unit completes and had to complete in the years prior to 2020, locking your citizens down and closing their places of employment were NEVER options.
Baloney. The Canadian Pandemic Influenza Plan for the Health Sector 2006, while optimistic, discusses both.
in all pandemic planning, that every public health unit completes and had to complete in the years prior to 2020, locking your citizens down and closing their places of employment were NEVER options.
"there were 5,535 deaths in those younger than 65 years of age"
"There were 1,380 COVID-related deaths for that same age group"
Some of the non-covid deaths might be attributed to the stress of disruption caused by covid, so what the article appears to be saying is that without covid the number of those deaths would have been at least 25% lower.
Most, if not all, of that disruption was caused by the government, not the virus itself.
To be clear: in all pandemic planning, that every public health unit completes and had to complete in the years prior to 2020, locking your citizens down and closing their places of employment were NEVER options. Not even for the worst virus.
Baloney. The Canadian Pandemic Influenza Plan for the Health Sector 2006, while optimistic, discusses both.
Not relevant to the discussion. The claim that
is simply dead wrong.