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The mRNAs Didn’t End COVID, Omicron Did: Berenson

Sometimes the answer just needs to be color-coded.

For years, mRNA advocates have tried to give the jabs credit for ending the pandemic, despite massive evidence they stopped working within months and the observational data showing lower deaths among the vaccinated is hopelessly biased.

But earlier this month, the Society of Actuaries released an updated report on deaths during the pandemic that shows what really slayed Covid.

Spoiler alert: it didn’t come from Pfizer or Moderna.

The Society of Actuaries (actual slogan: Empower Your Actuarial Journey) is a 30,000-member group of, you guessed it, actuaries – the folks who help insurance companies assess risk. Every few months, it has put out reports on trends in American deaths during Covid.

The reports tend to focus on the number of insured people who have died, rather than the entire population. But the actuaries have access to enough big insurers to make the data a reasonable proxy for full national data – and they present it much more quickly and in a more useful way.

Their most recent report, released earlier in November, covers the period through the second quarter of 2023, ending June 30. Among other interesting data, it includes depictions of both Covid and non-Covid deaths stratified by quarter and by age.

The trends in non-Covid deaths are messy, especially in people under 50, because overdoses have exploded since 2020. (There is some evidence that the fall 2022 bivalent booster rollout led to more non-Covid deaths in older people, but it’s far from definitive.)

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3 thoughts on “The mRNAs Didn’t End COVID, Omicron Did: Berenson”

  1. They now have to plaster a big fancy name on everything that is simply the old fashioned cold! Gotta have a vax for each one too. The cold won’t kill you but the vax will.

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