death rates from “respiratory infections” skyrocketed in 2020, but death rates for almost every other category also rose “mildly”.
The causes of death that rose:
- cardiovascular
- neuropsychiatric
- unintentional injury
- digestive
- intentional injury
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rate-by-cause-who-mdb
deaths from digestive disease was about 18.75/100k pre-pandemic, and went up to 24/100k in 2021. So digestive deaths increased by about 28% after COVID started hitting.
Also worth mentioning that for every additional person who dies of X, there are dozens, hundreds, thousands of additional people suffering from X
There are worse things than death, and dementia is one of them.