The study struggles to explain why Quebec has a high death toll from COVID but a low death rate

From the Canadian Press

May 30, 2022 | 13:16

MONTREAL – Researchers are struggling to explain why Quebec has the highest official number of COVID-19 deaths in Canada, despite the relatively low number of deaths between March 2020 and October 2021.

A new study published today by the Canadian Medical Association Journal tried to answer this question, but it turned out to be short.

The study says Quebec had 4,033 more deaths during that period, but reported 11,470 deaths from COVID-19 – almost three times as many. This is the largest difference recorded in Canada during the pandemic.

Redundant deaths refer to the extent to which observed deaths exceed expected deaths based on modeling from previous years.