I haven't looked at the data for a couple of years but the results are truely incredible looking back through recent retrospective studies.
I've wondered if part of that success might be related to the diverse combination multiple vaccines with different target plus natural immunity making it statistically harder for virus mutations evolve?
I hate to bring up China data but a US group found nearly 2 million excess deaths followed China's sudden end of COVID curbs the first two month the virus had access to an unvaccinated population with no natural immunity starting in late 2022.
Nearly 2 million excess deaths followed China'''s sudden end of COVID curbs, study says | Reuters
BEIJING, Aug 25 (Reuters) - China's abrupt move to dismantle its strict COVID-19 regime, which unleashed the virus onto its 1.4 billion residents, could have led to nearly 2 million excess deaths in the following two months, a new U.S. study shows.
The study by the federally funded Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle was taken from a sample of mortality data published by some universities in China and internet searches.
It found an estimated 1.87 million excess deaths from all causes occurred among people over 30 years of age between December 2022 and January 2023, and were observed in all provinces in mainland China except Tibet.
China's decision last December to end the three-year zero-COVID policy, which included mass-testing and stringent and persistent quarantine lockdowns, led to a massive surge in hospitalisations and deaths that health experts say were largely unreported by the government.
The study, published on Thursday in JAMA Network Open, said the number of excess deaths far exceeded official Chinese government estimates in January that 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospital since the zero-COVID policy was abandoned a month earlier.
