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Covid-19: we are at the lowest level of deaths worldwide since March 2020. Let’s put the word END or what are we waiting for?

The world data on deaths from Covid-19 bring us good news: In these days, according to what was reported by official data from the site " Our world in Data ", we have returned to the minimum death levels worldwide since March 2020, calculated for millions of inhabitants.

Excellent news, we are under 0.4 deaths per million inhabitants worldwide, much less even than the "summer truces" granted in the past by the various waves. Worldwide covid-19 is no longer scary. We are now in full withdrawal.

Maybe in Italy we are in worse shape. Let's check:

Our performance is also at its lowest, even considering that our Covid was very particular, with a huge peak in March 2020 that was practically unmatched in the world. We are now at endemic disease levels, ie 2 deaths per million inhabitants. You will tell me “But we are above the lows of 2020 and 2021. Of course, but not of April 2020 or 2021, but still slightly above the lows.

However, these are deaths from an endemic disease: by now we will see them stable at that level, perhaps with variations linked to seasonality. Furthermore, let's consider what 2 deaths per million inhabitants are, at a demographic level, by comparing the figure with the deaths from cancer in Italy:

In Italy, 140 people per hundred thousand inhabitants die from cancer every year. We are 700 times the mortality of Covid-19, if we compare it per million inhabitants (it would be 1400 deaths per million inhabitants). In addition, this percentage falls with an exasperating slowness, and almost nothing since 2015. After all, to reduce cancer deaths, it is necessary to invest in diagnostics, expensive therapies, etc., it is not enough to pretend to vaccinate people.

If we applied the same criteria to cancer that we applied to Covid-19, we would have preventive examinations that are not only free, but mandatory, for the population. I know the fool's answer of the day is "But cancer isn't contagious." sure, but never, in any moment, has Covid been even remotely close to the number of deaths per million of cancer inhabitants. At the worst we have had 100 times more deaths from cancer than from Covid, per million inhabitants.

So do we wait to close the "Covid Practice", to consider it as any other disease to be treated, and to resume focusing on the real priorities of health? Also because countries like Switzerland are doing much better than us …


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The article Covid-19: we are at the lowest level of deaths worldwide since March 2020. Let's put the word END or what are we waiting for? comes from ScenariEconomici.it .


This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/covid-19-siamo-al-livello-piu-basso-di-morti-mondiale-dal-marzo-2020-mettiamo-la-parola-fine-o-cosa-aspettiamo/ on Mon, 18 Apr 2022 16:41:43 +0000.