With 2022 now past us, we can compare this first post-pandemic year with data from before and during the pandemic. The data is available on Wikipedia, so there's no point in reproducing it here. Instead, I'll present the data as a graph with three separate dataset for the 12 months of the year as follows:
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| Notable deaths according to Wikipedia |
The blue bars are an average of 2018 and 2019. They represent the pre-pandemic numbers. The red bars are an average of 2020 and 2021. They represent the pandemic numbers. The yellow bars are for 2022.
All numbers have been adjusted for severity where young people's deaths are weighted more than old people's death. This is in order to spot diseases that target young people, and tone down diseases that target people who are expected to die soon anyway.
It's clear from the graph that 2022 has been less deadly than 2020 and 2021, but more deadly than 2018 and 2019. We are still far away from pre-pandemic levels. There appear to be some lingering long term effect from the pandemic years.
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| Wikipedia |
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