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Interestingly, the US is not one of those countries. If you tally up the excess deaths for the year (as per the public CDC data), they match C19 fatalities near
by m0zg 6y ago
Interestingly, the US is not one of those countries. If you tally up the excess deaths for the year (as per the public CDC data), they match C19 fatalities nearly exactly.
- p49k 6y agoAnother commenter above linked to a NYT article that shows the US likely underreported by 20% from March-July.
- benaadams 6y agoWhich means the US is undercounting C19 fatalities? Since lockdowns cut the flu season short; stopped all school shootings and most firearm deaths; cut traffic accidents etc
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- zaroth 6y agoI don’t think lockdowns cut the flu season short - how would they stop flu but not COVID in March? School shootings are not an appreciable cause of excess death, firearm deaths are mostly suicides which probably went up not down, similar to overdose deaths. More starkly, visits to the ER for strokes and heart attacks plummeted during lockdown. But there weren’t actually fewer strokes and heart attacks. Many of those people just died at home. In short, no one can say how many of excess deaths were COVID vs lockdown deaths, but it certainly isn’t the case that the “lockdown”‘category is actually a net negative.
- jtbayly 6y agoThe mistake here is that the CDC data is incomplete until you go back about 8 weeks. So comparing today’s Covid deaths to the CDC’s current excess death number will never be accurate. Instead, take the numbers from 8 weeks ago for both and compare. What you will see is a significant gap.