Yes, sadly the pandemic is ongoing for one class of people -- those aged 5-17

It's stopped for us older adults

But for children it keeps on going, relentlessly

When are we going to talk about this?

I'm guessing it's an Inconvenient Truth

So, never?

That's the same chart as I did for all ages except it's now restricted to the 5-17yo age group

Why does that chart look so different than the all-ages one?

More important, why does it look like the pandemic did not end in February 2024 for children?

Here's why

Those charts were for deaths in ALL ages

Since most people wait until they are old to die, the statistics in that chart are flooded by the ordinary, expected, deaths of old people and old people die, as I said, all the time

So take a look at this chart

Note that the black and white lines converge again in February of 2024

Does that mean the SARS-CoV-2 ("COVID") pandemic only lasted from 2020-2024?

No. And I am going to tell you why...

Until January 2020, actual deaths were identical to what we expected

But then the lines began to diverge

The gap between the lines is "excess" death if the black line is above the white line

It's NEGATIVE excess deaths if the black line is below the white line

So simple even I understand it

Here's an example of excess death analysis

The white line represents the number of deaths per month that we EXPECT, given history

The black line represents the ACTUAL number of deaths each month

Expected vs. Actual

Yes, it's as simple as that

How do we better measure the impact of a disease when it is widely acknowledged that traditional methods of measuring disease mortality are inaccurate?

One tool is "excess death" analysis

This is simply a comparison of current mortality to a historic baseline

Young people (those under 45 years of age) are continuing to die of SARS-CoV-2 infections ("COVID") at a very high rate

Yet the increase in mortality among the young gets virtually no notice in the media

Why is that?

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