{"id":24944,"date":"2025-03-26T12:49:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=24944"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:50:32","slug":"excess-mortality-and-government-response-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/03\/excess-mortality-and-government-response-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Excess mortality and government response in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an update of <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33246350\/\">my earlier COVID19<\/a> paper,\u00a0I thought\u00a0 about correlating<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/akarlinsky\/world_mortality\"> excess COVID19 mortality<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline.png\" rel=\"key\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24949 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline-620x438.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline-620x438.png 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline-708x500.png 708w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline-768x542.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline-1536x1084.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline-2048x1446.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-021-01079-8\">Oxford stringency index of government response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/covid-19-stringency-index.png\" rel=\"key\" data-rel=\"key-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24948 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/covid-19-stringency-index-620x438.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/covid-19-stringency-index-620x438.png 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/covid-19-stringency-index-708x500.png 708w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/covid-19-stringency-index-768x542.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/covid-19-stringency-index-1536x1084.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/covid-19-stringency-index-2048x1446.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>just to answer the question: What had been appropriate?<\/p>\n<p>Getting the data is no problem but verifying and selecting the best variables is a nightmare and involves so many a priori decisions that I am basically lost here.\u00a0And it looks weird just by overlaying both plots.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 20.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an update of my earlier COVID19 paper,\u00a0I thought\u00a0 about correlating excess COVID19 mortality with the Oxford stringency index of government response. just to answer the question: What had been appropriate? Getting the data is no problem but verifying and selecting the best variables is a nightmare and involves so many a priori decisions that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/03\/excess-mortality-and-government-response-in-germany\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Excess mortality and government response in Germany<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3102],"tags":[3440],"class_list":["post-24944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-worthy","category-one-world","tag-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24951,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24944\/revisions\/24951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}