In the wake of a recent government study attributing the sharpest two-year decline in the average life expectancy of Americans in 2020 and 2021 mainly to COVID deaths, some analysts are pointing to emerging statistics showing more people died after the rollout of the vaccine than did during the height of the pandemic.
That’s while they’re also ascribing the historic decline to broader factors including the negative effects from the lockdowns, deferred medical care, and the vaccines themselves. This approach is what’s referred to as “all-cause mortality,” which epidemiologists use to refer to the number of deaths from all causes above what would be expected under normal circumstances.
