This suggests that something other than COVID is responsible for the excess deaths now, or that deaths caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection in children are being wrongly attributed to some other pathogen on death certificates

As you can clearly see here, deaths in school-aged children are now a year-round phenomenon

And it's getting worse, not better. Take a look at the data labelled "incomplete data"

It's incomplete because all of the death certificates haven't been counted there

The numbers will go up

Can you say "stock pump?"

AI is an enormous bubble that has been wildly over-promised and that will wildly-under deliver

And there will be hell to pay in the markets when the Grift is up

I'm not saying anything that they're not planning on doing anyway

Yes, we are going to see all vaccine recommendations for children dropped by the end of the year

The maximum vaccination rate is given on this chart:

For 12-17yo, 63% of the population received at least one initial COVID vaccine
For those 5-11: 34%
For those 2-4: 5.5%
For those 0-1: 4%

And that was as of two years ago. Virtually no US child has had a vaccination within the last year

Pediatric SARS-CoV-2 vaccination rates in the USA are virtually nonexistent

At this point it's safe to say that while most children have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 multiple times, most children are also not vaccinated against the SARS-CoV-2 virus

Viral infection are a significant cause of chronic heart disease as well as acute events such as stroke or cardiac arrest

We see this in the data. Pediatric >cardiovascular mortality< for instance corresponds nicely with periods of high viral infection in children

This is absolutely true

But if we are going to communicate this information to the public it is extremely important that when we talk about excess deaths we say what they are excess TO -- exactly what you are saying

I steadfastly avoid pointing out the massive racial disparity in mortality outcomes from COVID

Why?

Because when powerful White Men hear that a deadly viral pathogen only affects poor Black people and not them, they stop doing anything about it

Saying kids don't need to be vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 infections because they are being constantly re-infected is STRAIGHT out of the Great Barrington Declaration

It's not surprising Mina is parroting the economic desires of a right-wing think tank to restore the status quo "for the economy"

"Covid shot no longer recommended for healthy kids and pregnant women"

1. SARS-CoV-2 continues to be the leading cause of death from infectious disease in healthy kids

2. Pregnant women by definition have impaired immune function and are one of the highest-risk groups for SARS-CoV-2 infection

for the US

I don't have as problem with that but it should be a little more clear from the get-go since most other estimates of US excess mortality, including mine, are much lower (though still incredibly high)

Yes, I understand that now. If I understand it, you are using European mortality baselines and then applying those baselines to US mortality data to produce the excess death estimates

Given that the US has terribly high mortality rates compared to Europe this will produce inflated excess estimates