Unusually large increase in deaths in Norway in 2022 – what is the reason?
In 2020, Dagsrevyen taught people to follow the number of deaths from day to day and week to week. That is the end of it, despite the fact that it is now in 2022 that the deviations in the number of deaths are really something to talk about. In 2020, we had no increase in the number of deaths. 2020 was a normal year – despite the shrill reports. 2022, on the other hand, is a statistical sensation. But it is not on any front pages.
In fact, figures from Statistics Norway show that the number of deaths in Norway so far in 2022 is 10% above the average for the years 2015 to 2021.
We are not aware of anything similar having happened before.
Here are the raw numbers from SSB:
Deaths, by sex, age and week. Provisional high 2000 – 2022
From this, we have extracted this table:
We have summed the columns and calculated the average for the years 2015–2022, and this gives us the following:
Here, firstly, 2020, the big panic year, with its 21,956 deaths was below the average for the period 2015–2021. It was not exactly the impression the media and the authorities gave us, to put it mildly.
But we also see that the big sensation is 2022. So far this year, 2,192 more people have died in Norway than did on average for the period in question, that is 10% more. We are not aware of anything similar having happened before.
Her table in graphic form:
This makes it reasonable to call for the cause. What has happened that has caused us to have an abnormal increase in the number of deaths? This must be clarified. Authorities, health professionals and politicians cannot just let this pass without giving us an explanation.
A reasonable assumption is that it has something to do with the vaccines, i.e. the vaccine injuries. But that is an assumption, regardless of whether it is a reasonable assumption. What we now need are thorough analyzes of the actual deaths. What are people dying from in such unusually large numbers?
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The hospitals are experiencing an increase in acutely ill patients, but do not know why
The magazine Nursing write: In June this year, the number of patients in the emergency department at St. Olav’s hospital increased by 14 per cent.
Hospital Innlandet on standby
Innlandet Hospital has increased preparedness. An unusual number of emergency admissions and an upsurge in the corona pandemic are given as the cause.
– We first noticed it in Gjøvik two weeks ago. We then used our other hospitals to relieve the burden. In the last few days, we have had similar capacity problems at our other hospitals, says Acting Director of Medicine and Health Sciences Siv Cathrine Høymork to Oppland Arbeiderblad.
The acute admissions come in addition to a flourishing in the corona pandemic and holiday closures.
Got no
The Innlandet Hospital asked nearby health institutions for help to relieve the burden, but was refused.
– It was just as demanding with them, so they did not have the capacity to relieve us. There are also an unusually high number of emergency admissions. We see the same thing happening in Trondheim, Stavanger and Oslo, says Høymork.
St. Olav’s hospital in Trondheim also has capacity challenges this summer.
– We are also experiencing an increase in the influx of acutely ill people to the hospital, writes assistant specialist director at St. Olav’s hospital, Birger Endreseth, in an e-mail to Sykepleien.
– How much is the increase in acutely ill?
– In June this year, the number of patients increased by 14 per cent from the previous peak level, which was June 2021. Compared to the level before the pandemic, there has been an acute increase of 18 per cent, says Endreseth.
And what is the reason?
– We currently do not know what this is due to, only that we now receive a great many patients with a great many types of diseases, the hospital replies in an e-mail to Nursing.