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The key part is the "by far." The article addresses this in the first few paragraphs: > U.S. deaths increase most years, so some annual rise in fatalities is
by MattGaiser 6y ago
The key part is the "by far."
The article addresses this in the first few paragraphs:
> U.S. deaths increase most years, so some annual rise in fatalities is expected. But the 2020 numbers amount to a jump of about 15%, and could go higher once all the deaths from this month are counted.
> That would mark the largest single-year percentage leap since 1918, when tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers died in World War I and hundreds of thousands of Americans died in a flu pandemic. Deaths rose 46% that year, compared with 1917.
- khuey 6y agoAnd "Deaths usually rise by about 20,000 to 50,000 each year, mainly due to the nation’s aging, and growing, population."
- tinalumfoil 6y agoIt walks back the significance of the title a bit, but that's different than addressing it. I'm not saying it's wrong, but I would expect far larger number of souls to die from one year to the next even if nothing significant occurred.
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