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COVID was the 3rd leading cause of death in 2020 and 2021 in the US and kills an order of magnitude more than the flu typically does.
by Sparkle-san 3y ago
COVID was the 3rd leading cause of death in 2020 and 2021 in the US and kills an order of magnitude more than the flu typically does.
- junofan 3y agoTypically it’s the influenza-related pneumonia that does the killing, not the flu.
- Sparkle-san 3y agoThankfully the CDC lists those deaths as influenza and pneumonia so that's already accounted for.
- VancouverMan 3y agoWe have to be extremely cautious when considering any death statistics from that era. For example, even as early as June of 2020, the public health authority in Canada's most-populous city (with the fourth highest population in North America) revealed that the counting of deaths was being done using a methodology that sounds quite dubious: "Individuals who have died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19 are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto." https://twitter.com/TOPublicHealth/status/1275888390060285967 https://twitter.com/TOPublicHealth/status/127588839006028596...
- Sparkle-san 3y agoYou can also look at the sudden spike in deaths and easily tell something was happening. In the US there was an increase in mortality of 19% between 2019 and 2020 which is 535k deaths. The typical increase between 2010 and 2019 per year is 1.63%
- zanfr 3y agoif I may interject for a second, have you looked at 2022 ? it is a massacre. also need I remind you what they consider to be death from covid is a 20 days window... and some people drop dead a month after they "recover" ?