Facebook alert: The “highest mortality ever” in Portugal
“Highest inflation in the last 30 years: 9.1%. Biggest burned area in Serra da Estrela, equal to 4,0000 soccer fields. Higher mortality always: 10,000. Higher number of pregnant women’s mortality”, enumerated in a publish of August 10 on Facebook, sent to the Polygraph with requests for fact checking.
In the present article we focus exclusively on the claim of the “highest mortality ever”, after having already selected the matter of the tax in previous article.
According to the July 2022 “Vital Statistics – Monthly Data” bulletin (you can consult here), released by the National Statistics Institute (INE) on August 12, “in the month of july 2022, the number of deaths was 10,657higher than that recorded in June 2022 (459 more deaths; +4.5%) and higher than that observed in July 2021 (1,850 more; +21.0%). From January to July 2022, 74,639 deaths were recorded, 1,480 less than in the same period of 2021 (-1.9%)”.
That is, despite the fact that the number of deaths in July 2022 increased by 4.5% compared to 2022 and 21% compared to July 2021, the fact is that the cumulative number of deaths in the year 2022 (from January to July) is inferior (-1.9%) to that recorded in the same period of 2021. Logo, We are not before a “always higher mortality“.
“In July 2022, the number of deaths due to Covid-19s to 453 (minus 525, compared to June 2022), representing 4.3% of the total of deaths. Compared to July 2021, there was a increase of 181 deaths due to Covid-19″, specifies the INE.
“In July 2022, the number of deaths was 10,657, 459 more than in the previous month. Compared to the same month, the number of deaths increased by 21.0% (1,850 more deaths). – 1919, 2019, for death, 453, 453, 525, date of June 2022, representing 19% of total deaths. bulletin.
“Between January 31 and February 20, 2022 (weeks 5 to 7), the number of deaths was higher than the average of the five years before the pandemic. Between February 21 and March 6 (weeks 8 and 9), the number of deaths returned to values below the average for the period 2015-2019as had already been selected in the last week of 2021 and in the first four weeks of 2022. From March 7 to 31 of 31 (weeks 10 to 30), the number of weekly deaths was always above average of the reference period (2015-2019). In the 30th week of 2022 (July 25th to 31st), there were 2,262 deaths, of which 64 were due to Covid-19, representing 2.8% of total deaths.
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