rabbiskittles t1_j0ih95l wrote on December 16, 2022 at 9:57 PM

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

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

xenocles_the_lesser t1_j0inx3r wrote on December 16, 2022 at 10:46 PM

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.