EU saw 53,000 excess deaths in July amid record heatwave: report

&quot;It added the 16% rate was &#x27;an unusually high value&#x27; for a July month. The bloc had 3% excess mortality in the same period in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and 6% in 2021.&quot;<p>Am I reading correctly that this implies, at least for the month of July, that heat killed more people than the pandemic?

How many of them died due to heat?<p>In a massice 2015 Lancet study of temperature related fatalities worldwide, they found 17 times more fatalities due to cold than heat. Even in tropical countries there were more people dying due to cold-related issues. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;lancet&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS0140-6736(14)62114-0&#x2F;fulltext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;lancet&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS0140-6...</a>

The last spin in the campaign to blame excess deaths spike in the last year on anything, but that one thing they forced on everyone.

&quot;Good&quot; the government says, &quot;keep reducing the energy those peasants can use&quot;, and &quot;the winter will kill them when we turn off the gas, lmao&quot;.