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Steve's avatar

Thanks for creating this. One possible explanation for the results your showing is that you have cohort depletion in the most vulnerable in the countries that had high deaths pre-vax and you'd expect to see lower deaths over time. The other countries did not have this and when the vaccines accelerated spread the vulnerable population became affected. This is a complex system and this is just one explanation but as I look around the world this seems to make some sense to me. I'm also open to other interpretation as well.

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Andrew Madry's avatar

Excellent work. It certainly shows another dimension of the data. Comment on Australia, NZ. Remember that we locked out virus (including seasonal influenza) from our countries in the early period. There will always be a population of vulnerable people. Those that didn't die in one period will unfortunately die shortly later.

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