by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:

The study, published on June 3rd, in one of the world’s leading medical journals, the British Medical Journal, is titled “Excess mortality across countries in the Western World since the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Our World in Data’ estimates of January 2020 to December 2022”. Its end — its closing third —  is useful for the general public who want to know why there is increasing concern in the research-medical community regarding whether vaccines against covid-19 increased instead of decreased death-rates. The report recognizes that the purpose of a vaccine isn’t merely to reduce death-rates from a particular disease (in this case covid-19) but to reduce all-cause death-rates (“excess mortality”), which includes deaths from the given disease but is not limited to that. This study focused on the effect that the covid-19 vaccines had on all-cause death-rates, not on their effect on merely covid-19 death-rates.