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And how is that number derived? Do you have any idea how the calculations are performed to arrive at that number? I suggest you take some time to investigate.

• EdwardDiego 4y ago
  The hint is in the word "excess". If there's a pandemic, and concurrently the amount of deaths in a population increases, there's a strong argument for correlation. Excess deaths doesn't care what your cause of death was, it just compares deaths in period X to deaths in previous periods. > When we are talking about the US, in particular, the whole pandemic has been politicized Yeah, it was very sad to see the Republicans and Trump in particular pursue that course of action.
  • upsidesinclude 4y ago
    You seem to want to keep your blinders on. The population is growing and hence the number dying is also growing. The way you handle the data to determine what is considered 'excess' changes the value. Actuarial science has been used to make that determination in more recent studies. Those studies suggest that the 'excess' number used by politicians and in news media is not accurate. Actuarial science used by insurance companies now shows historic changes in occurrence of deaths, over this period of time, that are not caused by SarsCoV2. Again, I suggest you investigate where the information comes from that you consider to support you base assumptions.