The province of Alberta in Canada puts outs annual statistics on causes of death. This data for 2021 was released on June 30.

The leading cause of death during the Covid pandemic is – uh – unknown… It is formally written as ‘other ill-defined and unknown causes of mortality’.

In 2021, there were 3,362 cases of unknown causes of death in the province, which has more than doubled from the 1,464 cases in 2020.