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If you look at the CDC data on Excess Deaths[1] then you can see that COVID and the response to COVID has been responsible for a significant number of excess de

• thu2111 6y ago
  COVID and the response to it - maybe yes. But remember that many countries have seen no excess death at all, their graphs are totally flat. Just look at EuroMOMO. People have tried to figure out why. It's supposedly the same virus everywhere. It's not related to hospital overload or healthcare availability because nowhere ran out of that, despite the initial scares. It might be care home related, as that's where 80% of the deaths are (reported to be). It might be related to decisions to flush hospitals to make way for a modelled surge that never happened. But then that'd fall squarely into the response bucket. The US data is hard to interpret because it only goes back to 2017. I can't seem to find longer term data. Do you know where to find it? In the UK - one of the 'worst hit' in the world supposedly (but those stats were found to be wrong) - to find similar excess deaths you have to go back to 1998/1999/2000. Is this bad? Well, "once in 20 year excess death spike" may seem bad. But events that happen once every 20 years aren't especially rare. Back then nobody panicked. Nobody talks about the terrible winters of 1999 when they lost so many loved ones. So it's really important to be able to put these excess death stats in perspective, otherwise you just see a bump in a graph and are told "this is really bad".