🚨 JUST IN: Germany's All-cause Excess Mortality in 4th quarter highest in last 7 years, despite 84% of adults are fully vaccinated!
> Excess Mortality in Q4/2020: +9.4%, while 2021 comes in at +11.5%
> 82.9% of excess coded as COVID-19

The first 2 weeks of the new year, is also setting a new record at +16.8% excess mortality above 5y age-adjusted baseline!

In summary, though we can say that there's essentially no excess mortality in Germany in both years of 2020/2021. Small fluctuations of +-1% are within error range, also keeping in mind, that detailed age population data for 2021 is still missing.

Comparing excess mortality over time, reveals, no major improvement over 2020.

And most of the excess mortality is coded as COVID-19. However excluding COVID-19 coded deaths from the figures would lead to a deficit of 6.2% and 6.9% for 2020 and 2021.
This seems highly unlikely and points to the fact that most of Germany's COVID-19 deaths have died from other underlying causes. @USMortality