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And, as that article mentions, the YoY delta is closer to 10%, so about 7500 excess deaths compared to a normal year. The data is from around June if I recall c
by topkai22 6y ago
And, as that article mentions, the YoY delta is closer to 10%, so about 7500 excess deaths compared to a normal year. The data is from around June if I recall correctly, so it could have gone up or down a bit, but I doubt it would change by an order of magnitude. What's more, as we get the vaccine rolled out, almost all of these deaths are preventable. COVID is a unique event.
That being said, the shocking statistic I remember is when drug overdoses surpassed the COMBINATION of automobile accidents and homicides as a source of mortality. That is the blurb that really got me thinking differently about the scale of the problem.