Since the Corona year 2020 there has been “excess mortality to be observed in Austria. According to calculations by the “Austrian Health Academy”, 6.8 percent more people died in 2021 than statistically normal. But it has nothing to do directly with the infected.
“Most of the excess mortality is due to people who didn’t even have Covid at the time of death,” explains Maria M. Hofmarcher, co-author of the study entitled: “The pandemic has increased the risk of death for everyone.”
A lockdown cannot heal, but only pause life. In addition, there is a risk of massive collateral damage, warned TV doctor Dr. Marcus Franz weeks ago. And unfortunately he was right about that.
If possible, do not go to the hospital, that was the message in the first lockdown. Some people took that to heart too much – and died at home from heart attacks or other complications, the “Standard” now also reports. Even in the second year of the pandemic, things didn’t get any better. The postponement of supposedly non-essential operations, such as heart surgery, caused a lot of collateral damage.
The back and forth with the Corona measures is less pronounced in other countries than in Austria, Hofmarcher explains in the “Standard”. The government’s unclear course has undermined morale in complying with the rules and subsequently led to more infections, hospitalized patients and deaths.
Unfortunately, this trend seems to be continuing. New data from the City of Vienna show that in the past week, for the first time in the current year, there has been a clear excess mortality rate in Austria among people aged 65 and over.
