There's a pattern flagged by researchers in Italy (it sounds very familiar to us here in the States), and it has to do with excess mortality during COVID.

In Tuscany and other regions of central and southern Italy, excess deaths were higher in 2022 than in 2021, and higher than in 2020 as well. COVID deaths were going down during that same period. Something else was driving the increase. The timing of the mass vaccine rollout coincides with this.

When asked directly whether the COVID vaccine failed to reduce the rising death rate in those regions?

"Exactly. That's a fact."

@delbigtree