LAST week I wrote about the spike in daily deaths in some Metro Manila cities, based on the statistical analysis of data from 2010 to 2021 by SuperSally888 published at https://supersally.substack.com/p/democide-in-the-philippines. The analysis is not about a specific cause for the deaths, not even about Covid-19-related deaths. But it clearly highlighted the fact that over the past 10 years, from 2010 to 2020, the year-on-year daily death rate was fairly constant at minus .5 percent to 5 percent. What is worrisome is why suddenly there was a surge in the daily deaths starting March 2021 when we started getting our first doses of the vaccine, and worse in the succeeding month of April, when we had our second doses. Based on the limited data we know, it is not conclusive to say it was because of the vaccine. Hence, the challenge that we posed for Health Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd to answer.

I heard from the grapevine last night that there were some justifications made by the National Task Force Against Covid-19 (NTF) on the reported spike but so far, I have not heard about any formal or official explanation on the issue. Is there a correlation between the inoculation of vaccines and the surge in deaths?