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I'm going to guess you didn't read your own sources > The raw death count gives us a sense of scale: for example, the US suffered roughly 470,000 excess deaths
by tekla 3y ago
I'm going to guess you didn't read your own sources
> The raw death count gives us a sense of scale: for example, the US suffered roughly 470,000 excess deaths in 2020, compared to 352,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths during that year.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home
Total Deaths
1,159,864
That roughly tracks.
- killingtime74 3y agoHowever that two years of excess mortality is still less than one year of population growth. How do you answer that
- dehugger 3y agoBabies don't work in grocery stores.
- vidanay 3y agoNot with that attitude
- adastra22 3y agoExcess deaths.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoHow is that relevant to how many people died of covid? We have pretty clear metrics of that, 1.1m. Excess deaths counts covid plus adjacent deaths due to avoiding care, poorer care delivery, and other confounding factors, as well as reduction in deaths due to less driving, risk taking, etc. We typically use excess deaths to measure in countries that were unable or unwilling to actually accurately report their death counts.
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