More Than 155,000 Excess American Deaths in First 9 Months of 2023

The working age U.S. population has registered a 20 percent excess mortality rate, with deaths from kidney, heart, stroke, and liver issues also rising.

A graveyard in Lake Forest, Calif., on Jan. 8, 2021. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

The United States saw more than 155,000 excess deaths in the first nine months of this year, according to data from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).

In a Dec. 1 post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf said that the United States is “facing extraordinary headwinds in our public health with a major decline in life expectancy.”

“The major decline in the U.S. is not just a trend,” he said. “I’d describe it as catastrophic.”

Dr. Califf went on to say that overall life expectancy in the United States has dropped to 76 years and that male life expectancy specifically has dropped to 73 years.

“Since then, CDC released a report showing a slight rebound from lower life expectancy caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Even with this encouraging report, we still have a lot of work to do before we see pre-pandemic life expectancy again,” he said.

A Sept. 21 report by the group Insurance Collaboration to Save Lives cited data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to point out a 20 percent excess mortality rate in the U.S. working-age population of people aged 15 to 45. While deaths from COVID-19 declined in 2022, there was a “major rise” in heart, stroke, liver, and kidney deaths.

The group conducted a poll of actuaries, which are specialists who assess financial risk and uncertainty. In the poll, 79 percent of respondents said they expect excess mortality in the United States to continue beyond 2026.

Excess Deaths

The excess death phenomenon isn’t isolated to the United States. Australia saw more than 14,000 excess deaths in the first 34 weeks of the year, according to OECD data. Canada saw 22,808 excess deaths in 28 weeks while the UK registered 46,654 excess deaths in 41 weeks. Sweden was an outlier with fewer deaths.

Studies have linked excess mortality with COVID-19 vaccines. A Sept. 17 report by Correlation Research in the Public Interest found that in the 17 nations analyzed, all-cause mortality increased when COVID-19 vaccines were distributed.

Nine out of these 17 nations had no detectable excess deaths following the March 2020 WHO declaration of the pandemic. Excess deaths only began with the vaccination campaign.

In 15 of the 17 nations, there were unprecedented peaks in all-cause mortality in January and February 2022, which coincided with or followed the rollout of vaccine booster shots.

The study estimated 1.74 million excess deaths in the 17 nations during the vaccination period, which comes to roughly 1 per 800 injections.

Data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) show that more than 1.6 million COVID-19 vaccine adverse event reports were registered in the United States through Nov. 3. There were 212,294 COVID-19 vaccine-related hospitalizations, as well as 36,726 deaths.

A study published in medRxiv on Nov. 10 found that individuals who reported post-vaccination syndrome after getting COVID-19 vaccines had “low health status, high symptom burden, and high psychosocial stress despite trying many treatments.”

“There is a need for continued investigation to understand and treat this condition,” the study reads.

Medical experts across the world have confirmed several cases of vaccine-related deaths. In June, South Korean researchers revealed that eight people had suddenly died after receiving an mRNA vaccine because of vaccine-induced myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation.

All deaths occurred among individuals who were 45 or younger, with a 33-year-old man dying just a day after receiving a second dose of the Moderna vaccine.

An Epoch Times review in August found COVID-19 vaccination listed as the cause of death on 26 death certificates across five states. A 78-year-old man from Minnesota experienced sudden cardiac death just 10 hours after receiving a vaccine dose.