# Covid Mortality Statistics
*Answer to Canadian Authorities*
## The Article
Scientific article published in a peer-reviewed journal financed and run by government of Canada in which several co-authors including Tam, who has been coordinating COVID measures in Canada.

Modeling study which concludes that if they had not used the COVID-measures (distancing, masks, vaccination, lockdowns, closing care-homes), they would have had 1,000,000 more deaths.

Obscene in the context of all-cause mortality being studied for years.

This begs a response, in the context of the paper Rancourt/Mercier/Beaudin produced on all-cause mortality in Canada.

### Notes
Other countries did not go as far in terms of over-representing the benefits of their measures.

## The Response
*An article published on ResearchGate*
### Methodology
*How data was looked at in Canada*
- All-cause mortality (all deaths in an area by time)
- Deaths where COVID is attributed as the main cause of death
- Weekly deaths from beginning of February 2020

### Deaths Progression
- No anomalies in all-cause mortality prior to pandemic
- Excess all-cause mortality visible right after announcement
- The degree to which nothing happens until the WHO makes an announcement
- Sharp initial peak is the most institutionally-mediated, and is the largest peak

### All-Cause
- Winter peaks
- Amplitude of seasonal death oscillation is smaller, compared to the total number of deaths happening
- But always a death peak, nontheless
- First COVID peak is still comparable to some previous seasonal peaks
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