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Young people (those under 45 years of age) are continuing to die of SARS-CoV-2 infections ("COVID") at a very high rate Yet the increase in mortality among the young gets virtually no notice in the media Why is that?

How do we better measure the impact of a disease when it is widely acknowledged that traditional methods of measuring disease mortality are inaccurate? One tool is "excess death" analysis This is simply a comparison of current mortality to a historic baseline

Here's an example of excess death analysis The white line represents the number of deaths per month that we EXPECT, given history The black line represents the ACTUAL number of deaths each month Expected vs. Actual Yes, it's as simple as that

Until January 2020, actual deaths were identical to what we expected But then the lines began to diverge The gap between the lines is "excess" death if the black line is above the white line It's NEGATIVE excess deaths if the black line is below the white line So simple even I understand it

Those charts were for deaths in ALL ages Since most people wait until they are old to die, the statistics in that chart are flooded by the ordinary, expected, deaths of old people and old people die, as I said, all the time So take a look at this chart

That's the same chart as I did for all ages except it's now restricted to the 5-17yo age group Why does that chart look so different than the all-ages one? More important, why does it look like the pandemic did not end in February 2024 for children? Here's why

Yes, sadly the pandemic is ongoing for one class of people -- those aged 5-17 It's stopped for us older adults But for children it keeps on going, relentlessly When are we going to talk about this? I'm guessing it's an Inconvenient Truth So, never?