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Dutchwells t1_j0hotoc wrote

Reply to comment by xenocles_the_lesser in [OC] Provisional weekly death counts in Canada (all ages, both sex, from 01/2010 to 08/2022) by OlibriusR

Oh I don't know, something with a pandemic or something. Can't remember exactly

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xenocles_the_lesser t1_j0hpimi wrote

The disease that started in 2019, for which we got a vaccine in 2021, spiked the death rate so high in early 2022 that not just one, but two contour lines apply only to that period?

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rabbiskittles t1_j0ih95l wrote

I was right there with you thinking there’s no reason COVID would cause a random spike right there, but I looked it up and apparently there was a huge spike in cases right around then: https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/covid_briefs/101_briefing_Canada.pdf

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xenocles_the_lesser t1_j0inx3r wrote

There definitely was a COVID spike at that time. But if you look at Figure 3.1 in the report, which seems to match the shape of the Worldometer graph I looked at first (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/canada/) I see a death spike that isn't appreciably higher than the ones before, and possibly skinnier. While COVID might have contributed to this total death rate peak, I am not at all convinced that it was the major driver of it.

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foldingcouch t1_j0iv584 wrote

Two things:

  • Hospitals everywhere in Canada are short on staff and high on cases as COVID continues to be a thing and ...
  • The flu is particularly bad this year, with a ton of pediatric patients eating up a lot of hospital beds and resources

So we have a double-hit of COVID season and flu season hitting at a time when hospital resources are already stretched beyond capacity - people are going to die.

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xenocles_the_lesser t1_j0iy3m4 wrote

You're saying "are" as if you're talking about the present flu season. Just to be clear, this spike was at the end of January.

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mmarollo t1_j0hx3m1 wrote

Shh! Do you want to get banned?

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