mortality data. By December 2021, the quartile rankings of three-fifths of the countries differ when ranked by excess vs …. official mortality. Countries that are ‘doing substantially better’ in the excess mortality are characterized by higher urban …

that, although initially, vaccines have little effect on new infections they strongly reduce the share of mortality out of … hypothesis that the ratio of current mortality to lagged infections is decreasing in the total number of vaccines per one hundred … conclusion from the statistical analysis is that, passed a certain threshold, vaccines moderate the share of mortality from a …

excess mortality data. Contrasting countries' rankings using these two data sources reveal sharp and systematic differences …. While higher GDP per capita is associated with a worse mortality ranking when using official Covid-19 mortality, there is no … such sharp association when using excess mortality data. By the end of 2021, the quartile rankings of three-fifths of the …

strongly reduce the share of mortality out of a given pool of infections. This paper examines the extent to which this … phenomenon is more general by testing the hypothesis that the ratio of lagged mortality to current infections is decreasing in … that vaccines moderate the share of mortality from a given pool of lagged infections. This is essentially a favorable shift …