Covid vaccines may have helped fuel rise in excess deaths
telegraph.co.uk
telegraph.co.uk
https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000282
Another divulgational is here:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-high-excess-death-wes...
The title seems to reflect the paragraph in the study just before:
> Insight into the excess death rates in the years following the declaration of the pandemic by WHO is crucial for government leaders and policymakers to evaluate their health crisis policies
It’s not really clear why. (Perhaps dang can clarify?) Maybe that it got a bit political.
But it is a shame, because trust in science has taken a bit of a hammering in recent times. And although it is easy to slip into partisan rhetoric, I rather think it’s the duty of forums like this to entertain that as a kind of cost of doing business. (Of course, the business being showing that despite inevitable political distraction, science as an institution is trustworthy.)
Anyway. I expect I’ll lose that argument… :-)
It's clear why, if you know where to look- there are more comments than votes and (more to the point) there are a lot of flagged and flagged-dead comments.
Long time HN users with points get to [flag] posts and it only takes a few (likely less than 5) to move a post to flagged - what triggers flagging by users tends to be contraversial topics appearing for the N'th time and lots of bickering in comments.
When it comes to topics such as COVID, Lableaks, Isreal-Gaza, Climate Change, Trans-<something> posts get flagged more often than not - and near as I can see it's usually because these things have been hashed over many times in the past, there's generally not a lot of movement on opinions held by opposing parties, and threads often rapidly devolve into entrenched opposing camps firing at each other.