Mortality boom in Portugal, a super vaccinated nation

Mortality in Portugal, from all causes, recorded the highest number since 1980 last May, the newspaper said on Thursday, citing data from the National Mortality Surveillance Platform , which receives information from death certificates issued in the country.

In the last month, 10,315 people have died, a figure that is more common in the winter months, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics. According to the historical statistical data collected but the average deaths in May amounted to 8,864 deaths.

What would be the cause of the excess mortality according to the mainstream newspapers: covid-19: indeed in Portugal there has been a certain return of cases, but mortality remains under control. However, the accounts do not add up: according to data from the Directorate General of Health (DGS) to which I had access, 863 people died from covid-19 in 2022, 18 times more than in the same period of the previous year, in which they were 49 deaths have been reported due to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Returning to 2020, the period in which the country was confined and without vaccines, deaths due to the disease were 325, even if the number of daily cases was much lower than the current one. Yet Portugal has some of the highest vaccination rates in Europe.

Data from the National Mortality Surveillance Platform shows that the highest increase in mortality was recorded in those over 85, who had 1183 more deaths than in May last year. A category where vaccination is practically total, but obviously it doesn't help much …

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