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Check the death statistics instead of headlines and you'll see it truly is a novel situation - no previous year saw as many Americans die as 2020 and 2021. And
by javagram 5y ago
Check the death statistics instead of headlines and you'll see it truly is a novel situation - no previous year saw as many Americans die as 2020 and 2021. And excess deaths correspond closely to regions that saw high reported COVID-19 deaths, indicating "COVID-19 deaths" are people who would not have died had they not been infected with and killed by COVID-19.
2022 death rates are still high, nearing 2000 people killed by COVID-19 daily. We can hope that due to the death toll hitting mostly the unvaccinated, plus omicron being a somewhat milder than Delta, we won't possibly be able to hit the same high death rates all year long.
- Lammy 5y agoNo previous year saw as many Americans live as 2020 and 2021 either :) https://www.census.gov/popclock/ https://www.census.gov/popclock/ https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?tid=PEPNATMONTHLY2021.NA_EST2021_POP&hidePreview=false https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?tid=PEPNATMONTHLY2021.N...
- Eldt 5y agoGood thing births offset deaths :)
- javagram 5y agoThat data is irrelevant to my point. Compare deaths from 2015 through 2021 on a bar chart and the discontinuity is obvious even to the naked eye. See the charts shown on https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/04/25/is-it-really-true-that-the-u-s-death-rate-in-2020-was-the-highest-above-normal-since-the-early-1900s-even-surpassing-the-calamity-of-the-1918-flu-pandemic/ https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/04/25/is-it-real... for a simple visual example.