How many people died in BC during the first COVID-19 waves? - Vancouver Is Awesome

Of the 9,496 excess deaths reported in B.C. between the start of the pandemic and October 2021, fewer than a quarter were blamed on COVID-19. Could a cascading tragedy combining the pandemic, opioid crisis and climate change account for the rest?

British Columbia’s excess mortality rate dwarfed all other provinces in Canada during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study says. The peer-reviewed report, published in the Canadian M… [+7694 chars]

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