death rates from "respiratory infections" skyrocketed in 2020, but death rates for almost every other category also rose "mildly".
The causes of death that rose:
- cardiovascular
- neuropsychiatric
- unintentional injury
- digestive
- intentional injury
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rate-by-cause-who-mdb
deaths from digestive disease was about 18.75/100k pre-pandemic, and went up to 24/100k in 2021. So digestive deaths increased by about 28% after COVID started hitting.
Also worth mentioning that for every additional person who dies of X, there are dozens, hundreds, thousands of additional people suffering from X
Could be an effect of a falling denominator from COVID. The people who were going to die of cardiovascular disease do it regardless of whether COVID is present or not, but now the population is smaller because a bunch of people died from COVID. Dividing by a smaller denominator causes the other rates to go up