From the original report:
“ Excess mortality is influenced by six drivers of all-cause mortality that relate to the pandemic and the social distancing mandates that came with the pandemic. These six drivers are: a) the total COVID-19 death rate, that is, all deaths directly related to COVID-19 infection; b) the increase in mortality due to needed health care being delayed or deferred during the pandemic; c) the increase in mortality due to increases in mental health disorders including depression, increased alcohol use, and increased opioid use; d) the reduction in mortality due to decreases in injuries because of general reductions in mobility associated with social distancing mandates; e) the reductions in mortality due to reduced transmission of other viruses, most notably influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and measles; and f) the reductions in mortality due to some chronic conditions, such as cardiovascular disease and chronic respiratory disease, that occur when frail individuals who would have died from these conditions died earlier from COVID-19 instead. To correctly estimate the total COVID-19 mortality, we need to take into account all six of these drivers of change in mortality that have happened since the onset of the pandemic.”
As you can see, they include deaths due to the lockdown as WuFlu deaths.
Thanks for pointing that out. That makes the study far more believable to me. That excess mortality in the US from the effects of the lockdowns is nearly equal to that from COVID directly seems plausible at a minimum.
well Trump said the cure shouldn’t be worse than the disease when it came to lockdowns so if we believe these “six drivers” then the number of deaths were almost double because of the hardship yet his concerns were dismissed as trying to gaslight ahead of his reelection.