Eight pivotal facts about Covid-period excess mortality

Update 2026-05-13: This report is now available on Zenodo

CORRELATION has published a new report entitled “Eight pivotal facts about Covid-period excess mortality”, authored by Denis G. Rancourt.

The Summary of the report reads as follows:

Eight pivotal facts about Covid-period (2020-2025) excess mortality are described:

• Fact #1: The scale of excess all‑cause mortality during the Covid period was 0.13 % of population per year
• Fact #2: The Covid-period excess mortality was not caused by a spreading respiratory pathogen
• Fact #3: Most Covid-period excess mortality in young adults and the youth is not assigned to respiratory conditions (COVID-19)
• Fact #4: Excess mortality during the Covid period was highly heterogeneous, tied to imposed measures and medical protocols in specific jurisdictions and locations and in specific population groups
• Fact #5: The COVID-19 vaccine has harmed and killed many people
• Fact #6: Sharp peaks in excess mortality were temporally associated with rapid vaccine and booster rollouts
• Fact #7: Vaccination-status-discerned mortality studies show no statistically significant mortality-averting benefit or mortality- causing liability from COVID-19 vaccines
• Fact #8: There is a large systematic sex disparity in Covid-period excess mortality from main assigned causes, including (nominally COVID-19) respiratory disease

These empirical findings, based on extensive research, allow one to deduce the fundamental cause of Covid-period excess mortality.

All the excess mortality of the Covid period is inferred to arise from the many government assaults that produce deleterious health consequences in susceptible individuals via known biological processes involving sex-differentiated and age‑dependent extreme biological stress response (sustained or irreversible activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal or HPA axis), leading to deaths assigned to respiratory conditions (“COVID-19”), circulatory conditions, gut conditions, etc., and to accidental self-harm associated with drug and alcohol use.

Here, the known said government assaults included: fear propaganda, mandates, measures, public-health responses, and medical assaults. The largescale and repeated medical assaults included: testing, diagnostic bias, imposed facial masking, confinement, isolation, denial of appropriate treatment, mechanical ventilation, sedation, experimental and improper treatments, and vaccination rollouts.

The main lesson from the Covid-period assault by governments is that physiological and psychological (biological) stress was overwhelmingly the dominant underlying cause of disease and early death. The violent government Covid campaign ― like any major structural societal disruption that removes resources, mobility, human contact, social status and purpose ― caused the excess morbidity and mortality that occurred in all age groups.

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