Wed Oct 20, 2021 – 9:30 pm EDT
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(LifeSiteNews) – The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) released a report called COVID-19 and deaths in older Canadians: Excess mortality and the impacts of age and comorbidity. It is an overview of the overall data regarding deaths associated with COVID-19 in Canada in 2020.
The focus of the report is to highlight what the government believes is the disproportionate effect of deaths “with COVID” on the elderly and infirm, mainly in nursing homes and long-term care (LTC).
According to the resource, Canada recorded just over 16,000 excess deaths in 2020 based on estimates pertaining to yearly averages leading up to 2020. The report does not say how many deaths were recorded as having been associated with a COVID-19 diagnosis, but Statistics Canada states that there were nearly 15,300 such deaths.
It should be noted, whatever may or may not be the truth about any of the information the federal or provincial governments provided regarding COVID-19, estimates are essentially educated guesses, so a fluctuation in one direction or another does not necessarily signal a notable change in disease in a nation. There are myriad factors that could cause mortality to rise or fall in contrast with
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