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Do you have a good source for differences in overall deaths between this year and last year?
by x3n0ph3n3 6y ago
Do you have a good source for differences in overall deaths between this year and last year?
- GhostVII 6y agoThe New York Times did a report on it [0]. It's important to note that not all of the increase in deaths is necessarily due to the virus itself, the lockdown could be causing more deaths due to people being resistant to going to the hospital, in which case lifting the lockdown would reduce these deaths. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-death-toll-us.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronaviru...
- warkdarrior 6y agoFrom the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
- ImprobableTruth 6y agoThe NYT[0] has some neat graphs, but it's not a primary source. EuroMOMO[1] is a source for Europe, but I don't know what the equivalent would be for the US. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav... [1]https://www.euromomo.eu/ https://www.euromomo.eu/
- mwest217 6y agoThe CDC has a page about it [here](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm).