Denis Rancourt
An extract of my interview with Rancourt can be read below.
SE: Why focus on the Southern Hemisphere?
DR: What’s interesting about the Southern Hemisphere is that when the COVID-19 boosters are rolled out (pretty much synchronously around the world) it happens to be the Southern Hemisphere’s summer (January-February), which is our winter. All of a sudden, there’s a sharp peak right at the time where historically there’s always been trough in all-cause-mortality (ACM)- it’s unambiguous that something is happening there.
So, we picked all equatorial regions and SH countries that had data available and we saw every time a booster was rolled out, there was a synchronous peak in the all-cause-mortality and so we reported on it.
SE: Why did you go for ACM?
DR: The reason for that is that you’re just counting deaths irrespective of what anyone would attribute of that death to. In other words, if I am just counting deaths then I know the number is going to be accurate. You do away with all uncertainties and the political bias in assigning a cause of death. When you see an anomaly compared to the historic trend you know that something happened. Then you look at its association in time with other events that the same population is subjected to. ...