I have alluded to this issue before, but I just heard and read something by Dr. Pierre Kory that to me was worthy of re-emphasis.
First of all I heard an interview of Dr. Kory by Laura Ingraham on Fox’s Ingraham Angle. (I saw this on YouTube as I do not regularly watch Fox News any more.) For those unaware, Dr. Kory was one of a group of anti-establishment physicians during Covid, and he continues to be a thorn in the side of MSM as well as “those who know best,” namely the CDC and the FDA. On the Ingraham Angle he pointed out and queried as to why there is now an excessive death rate among mostly younger individuals.
This was then followed on 12/12/23 by an article in THE HILL by PIERRE KORY AND MARY BETH PFEIFFER titled:
“This is bigger than COVID: Why are so many Americans dying early?”
From that same article:
“Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf recently took to X to mourn the “catastrophic” decline in U.S. life expectancy.
But his post, which hit on smoking, diet, chronic illness and health care, ignored the obvious: People are dying in abnormally high numbers even now and long since COVID-19 waned. Yet public health agencies and medical societies are silent.
“Life insurers have been consistently sounding the alarm over these unexpected or, “excess,” deaths, which claimed 158,000 more Americans in the first nine months of 2023 than in the same period in 2019. That exceeds America’s combined losses from every war since Vietnam. Congress should urgently work with insurance experts to investigate this troubling trend.
With the worst of COVID behind us, annual deaths for all causes should be back to pre-pandemic levels — or even lower because of the loss of so many sick and infirm Americans. Instead, the death toll remains “alarming,” “disturbing,” and deserving of “urgent attention,” according to insurance industry articles.”
To Dr. Kory, as well as to myself, the question is why aren’t “those who know best” looking into this.
As Dr. Kory points out:
“Therein lies the most pressing question for insurers, epidemiologists and health agency officials. Why is the traditionally healthiest sector of our society — young, employed, insured workers — dying at such rates? Public health officials aggressively oversaw the pandemic response, for better or worse. Why aren’t they looking into this?”
From Epoch Health:
What’s more this excess death phenomenon isn’t isolated to the United States. Australia saw more than 14,000 excess deaths in the first 34 weeks of the year, according to OECD data. Canada saw 22,808 excess deaths in 28 weeks while the UK registered 46,654 excess deaths in 41 weeks. Sweden was an outlier with fewer deaths.
We all know that the biggest thing that happened over the last few years was Covid. During Covid older individuals died at an increased rate for a variety of reasons. Ordinarily that would mean that in the years following the deaths of older individuals, the overall number of deaths in the population at large should have gone down. However, the opposite is happening … the overall number of deaths in the population at large is increasing!
And worse a lot of this increase is in relatively younger individuals. A Sept. 21 report by the group Insurance Collaboration to Save Lives cited data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to point out a 20 percent excess mortality rate in the U.S. working-age population of people aged 15 to 45.
Is this increase in overall death stats a consequence of the forced lockdowns or perhaps something else that was unnecessarily mandated on young healthy people. Hmmm!
12/20/23