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  14.  @cletusjnrthethird  No it has been completely debunked. in September, the Australian Bureau of Statistics published provisional mortality data for the year to June 2022. It includes death counts which the ABS has compared to four-year historical averages (2017-19 and 2021) to provide an "initial indication" of whether deaths are tracking higher than expected. The results show that there were roughly 17 per cent (13,526) more deaths than the baseline average in the first six months of 2022. But on the question of whether that says anything about vaccine safety, the Australian Actuaries Institute's Karen Cutter told CheckMate: "The simple answer is no." She explained that the provisional data only provides counts for a handful of major causes of death, and "does not show anything at all that attributes death to vaccines or not". Tim Adair, a principal research fellow with Melbourne University's School of Population and Global Health, similarly said the numbers "don't shed any light" on vaccine-related deaths. And in a statement to CheckMate, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, which regulates vaccines in Australia, warned that despite a rise in deaths this year, it was "false and unscientific to automatically conclude that vaccines caused these deaths". "There is no credible evidence to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines have contributed to excess deaths in Australia or overseas." According to the TGA's October 6 weekly vaccine safety report, only 14 deaths have been directly linked to COVID-19 vaccines in Australia, of which 13 occurred after one dose of Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca). As for the increase, the ABS makes clear that its provisional data "does not provide official estimates of excess mortality". Partly that's because it "does not take into account changes in population size and age-structures of that population, as well as expected improvements in mortality rates over time". Adjusting for this, the Actuaries Institute estimates that excess mortality in the first half of 2022 was closer to 13 per cent (11,200). Roughly half (5,620) of those deaths were "from" COVID-19, it found, meaning non-COVID excess deaths stood at roughly 6.5 per cent. Major contributors to the rise were dementia, cancer, ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular diseases. (There were also more deaths from other "unspecified diseases", though the institute notes that "this is a large 'catch-all' category" from which it is difficult to draw conclusions.) But the data does not point to vaccines as a culprit. As Ms Cutter noted, "the vast majority of the excess deaths were in people aged over 75, but we have a huge population over the age of 16 that has been vaccinated". "So, the age statistics would indicate that it's not vaccine-related, otherwise we'd be seeing a lot more excess deaths in younger people." More likely, she said, was that people were suffering strokes, heart attacks or other fatal conditions several months after recovering from COVID-19 — which was consistent with "multiple studies showing that COVID increases" such risks.
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