Statistics Netherlands has, among other things, looked at explanations of causes of death of people. The agency received about 166,000 statements last year, and 162 of those forms stated that a corona vaccination may have contributed to the death. The information on most statements was “too limited or not specific enough” to say anything about the effect of the shot. In eleven people, the corona jab could ultimately have contributed to the death.
Statistics Netherlands has looked at excess mortality in recent years. If this is the case, more people will die than could have been expected. This happened four times in 2020 and 2021: in March and April 2020, in August 2020, between September 2020 and January 2021 and between August and December 2021.
Heat wave
The second death wave was caused by a heat wave. In the first period, “the excess mortality was as great as the number of people registered by CBS with Covid-19 as the cause of death” and in the third wave, more people died from corona than there was excess mortality. In those two periods, a relatively large number of people died from a corona infection.
The last wave of excess mortality was last fall. The number of people who then died ‘extra’, i.e. on top of the expected level, was greater than the number of deaths from corona. The peak in the number of deaths must therefore have been caused by other causes of death. Further research should clarify this, according to Statistics Netherlands.
In 2020 and 2021, a total of approximately 340,000 people died in the Netherlands. This is about 30,000 more people “than expected if there had been no Covid-19 epidemic.”
Criticism
The numbers are also criticized. An independent expert group of, among others, professors, which was put together at the request of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, says that there is “a lack of access to (medical) data”. The estimates by Statistics Netherlands are therefore insufficiently substantiated, according to the experts.
For example, according to Ronald Meester, professor of Probability Account at the VU, CBS is “much too firm” about the number of corona deaths. “The deficient registration, often based on no more than suspicions and symptoms, does not allow such a conclusion at all. In addition, not only primary causes of death should be considered, but also secondary and tertiary causes of death.”