Excess Mortality Spikes in Europe
Iceland has one of the highest COVID vaccination rates in the world. On November 21, 2021, 90% of the target population had been fully vaccinated, while around 1 in 5 people had received a booster on top of that; by December 9, 2021, the share of the population having received a booster shot exceeded 50%.
Oddly, that did nothing to excess mortality, which skyrocketed in 2022:
In July it was nearly 60% higher than expected.
Excess mortality across Europe saw spikes in the summer with 10 countries over 15% above the average mortality rate:
