> "excess deaths (including COVID deaths) exceeded COVID deaths" Yes, that's what I meant. I didn't think it was ambiguous. Lots of people think that COVID deaths were exaggerated. There are countries (with not very…
Short answer: In the U.S., 12 standard deviations. In the U.S., deaths were 16%-17% higher than expected. The death rate was 17.8% higher than in 2019. Excess deaths were higher in 1918, but every other year since 1900…
The UK government publishes other ways to measure COVID deaths. the "positive test result with 28 days of death" results in the lowest count: Deaths in England and Wales in 2020 80,830 Covid-19 as underlying cause of…
Here is some more data. Deaths from all causes has declined rapidly in the U.S. since January. The red dotted line is my best attempt to correct for reporting lag: https://i.imgur.com/z8M0k2h.png Excess deaths exceeded…
The CDC haven't released any national statistics on suicide, etc. But there is a file that contains "All Cause" mortality and "Natural Cause" mortality, so I subtracted the two and got what should be the count for…
The death data that the CDC has received and processed by yesterday, December 4, have a total of 2,893,571 deaths for weeks 1 through 48 (ending November 28). This number is incomplete because of a lag in reporting. The…
I made this table: https://imgur.com/PZqKWk2 It shows the point melolife made, that the percent excess (excess deaths as percent of expected) can be high, but the expected number is fairly low, so the total number of…
The CDC has an "expected death" curve which reflects the time trend (which thus includes population growth and aging) and seasonality of death. U.S. deaths this year are well above that curve: https://imgur.com/p4kBgXF…
> "excess deaths (including COVID deaths) exceeded COVID deaths" Yes, that's what I meant. I didn't think it was ambiguous. Lots of people think that COVID deaths were exaggerated. There are countries (with not very…
Short answer: In the U.S., 12 standard deviations. In the U.S., deaths were 16%-17% higher than expected. The death rate was 17.8% higher than in 2019. Excess deaths were higher in 1918, but every other year since 1900…
The UK government publishes other ways to measure COVID deaths. the "positive test result with 28 days of death" results in the lowest count: Deaths in England and Wales in 2020 80,830 Covid-19 as underlying cause of…
Here is some more data. Deaths from all causes has declined rapidly in the U.S. since January. The red dotted line is my best attempt to correct for reporting lag: https://i.imgur.com/z8M0k2h.png Excess deaths exceeded…
The CDC haven't released any national statistics on suicide, etc. But there is a file that contains "All Cause" mortality and "Natural Cause" mortality, so I subtracted the two and got what should be the count for…
The death data that the CDC has received and processed by yesterday, December 4, have a total of 2,893,571 deaths for weeks 1 through 48 (ending November 28). This number is incomplete because of a lag in reporting. The…
I made this table: https://imgur.com/PZqKWk2 It shows the point melolife made, that the percent excess (excess deaths as percent of expected) can be high, but the expected number is fairly low, so the total number of…
The CDC has an "expected death" curve which reflects the time trend (which thus includes population growth and aging) and seasonality of death. U.S. deaths this year are well above that curve: https://imgur.com/p4kBgXF…