A research group of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare analyzed the total number of deaths from January to July using a method called "excessive death" to investigate the effects of the new coronavirus, and found that it was higher than usual. I did.
This analysis was conducted by a research group of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare created by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, etc., and was shown at an expert meeting of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare held on the 20th of this month.
Infectious disease epidemics can lead to more deaths due to indirect consequences, such as tight medical care, in addition to the reported deaths.
In order to investigate these effects of the new corona, the research group used a method called "excessive death" to show how much the actual number of deaths exceeded the number of deaths statistically estimated from past data. We analyzed the number of deaths, including all causes of death from to July.
As a result, the national “mortality” during this period increased from 6352 to 34483, above the level of the same period in the last four years.
During this period, 11,525 people were reported dead from the new Corona nationwide.
Also, looking only at July, which was the fifth wave of the epidemic, 14 roads and prefectures such as Hokkaido, Fukushima, and Kanagawa exceeded the level of July for the past four years. is.
Motoi Suzuki, director of the Epidemiology Center for Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, said, "It seems that one of the causes is the epidemiology of the new corona, and it is possible that the medical strain may have affected it, especially in areas where the number of excess deaths is high." ..