> Excess deaths actually seem to line up better with the vaccine rollout than with the initial viral outbreak.
This seems to be a bizarre statement. I can't speak to other countries, but at least in England the widespread rollout of vaccines (just beginning in January 2021) only started at the end of the final major spike in excess deaths.
It's simply not possible for excess deaths to line up better with vaccine rollout than with the initial outbreak, because both major spikes in excess deaths were before mass vaccination rollout.
This seems to be a bizarre statement. I can't speak to other countries, but at least in England the widespread rollout of vaccines (just beginning in January 2021) only started at the end of the final major spike in excess deaths.
It's simply not possible for excess deaths to line up better with vaccine rollout than with the initial outbreak, because both major spikes in excess deaths were before mass vaccination rollout.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/excess-mortality-wi...