by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense:
Mortality rates among adults ages 25-44 skyrocketed in the last several years, because of drug use and “other external and natural causes,” according to a paper published today in JAMA Network Open. The paper didn’t account for COVID-19 pandemic countermeasures like vaccines and lockdowns, critics said.
Mortality rates among adults ages 25-44 spiked between 2020 and 2023, coinciding with the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a paper published today in JAMA Network Open.
The paper examined excess mortality among early adults in the U.S. from 1999 to 2023 and concluded that early adult mortality has “risen substantially” in two stages, from 2011 to 2019 and 2020 to 2023.
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Excess mortality among this group peaked during the pandemic years and then decreased, but not to pre-pandemic levels.
The biggest driver of excess mortality by 2023 was “drug poisoning,” they reported. However, they said that “other external and natural causes exceeded what prior trends would have projected.”
The authors concluded there is a “worsening” mortality crisis among this age group and policy conclusions ought to address the intensifying causes of excess mortality — which they said were opioid use, alcohol consumption, traffic safety and dietary risks.
They also noted that the two “distinct phases” of increased mortality before and after 2020 “may also suggest” a “need to attend to the ongoing consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic,” which they said were long-term effects of infection, medical disruption and social dislocation.
Dr. Pierre Kory, who has written several op-eds calling attention to the explosions in excess mortality and their temporal associations with the vaccine rollout slammed the paper for not mentioning the likely impact of the vaccines.
“To read papers like this where the possible impact of the vaccines are not (and cannot) be mentioned makes it anti-science and essentially uninterpretable because one of the likely major variables can never be examined or discussed,” he said.
“To wit, in the conclusion there is no mention of the mRNA campaign’s potential influence,” he said. Instead, they safely say there may be a need to attend to the ongoing consequences of the pandemic.
All-cause mortality researcher Denis Rancourt, Ph.D., who has extensively analyzed the links between pandemic countermeasures and all-cause mortality said research like this also fails to even question the fundamental causes of death.
The authors report on proximal causes of death like drug and alcohol use but don’t mention the fundamental causes of death like, for example, the loss of employment and loss of meaning that happened as a result of lockdowns, he said.
Articles like these, Rancourt said, are “purposefully not saying the important things.”
“It’s horrendously dishonest that these are the kinds of articles that get published in the opinion-leading journals,” Rancourt added. “It’s just completely dishonest that we’re going to be polite and diplomatic and just not really talk about what’s going on here.”
Kory added that other data, including deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System or VAERS and “the inexplicable and unprecedented rises in group term life insurance claims among young people 25-44, which occurred suddenly in the 3rd quarter of 2021 when mandates were all the rage,” raised important questions about the temporal relationship between vaccine rollouts and excess mortality that weren’t addressed in the paper.
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