Covid + Excess deaths

[vmax]

I have never understood the death reports due to the virus. From the beginning I would read the daily death total as 2 figures. Deaths due to virus and the "Other". I would wonder how many people died at home who couldn't get to a hospital or didn't think they needed to. I guess that is part of the "Other" category. Then you have the heart attacks/respiratory/stroke that were probably caused by the virus.

So the death toll has to be higher due to the vague "Excess Death" category.

I read this....

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The data cover the period Feb. 1 to Sept. 16, meaning that excess deaths have almost certainly reached 300,000. Woolf said they are likely to hit 400,000 by the end of the year. The numbers were assembled by the National Center for Health Statistics, a unit of the CDC.

Outside analyses, including some by The Washington Post and researchers at Yale University, have found two main causes for excess deaths. Many probably were the result of covid-19, although they were not recorded that way on death certificates. Others are probably the result of deaths at home or in nursing homes from heart attacks, diabetes, strokes and Alzheimer’s disease, among people afraid to seek care in hospitals or unable to get it.

Overall, the CDC found “that excess deaths have occurred every week since March, 2020,” with a peak during the week of April 11 and another during the week ending August 8. Those dates roughly coincide with the virus’s surge into the New York metro area near the start of the outbreak and a second major rise across the Sun Belt when many states reopened too soon in an effort to revive flagging economies.

The United States is in the midst of another sharp increase in coronavirus infections, this one centered in the Upper Midwest and Plains states. The seven-day rolling average of cases, considered the most accurate barometer, is near 60,000 per day. At least 219,000 people have died from covid-19 so far, according to data kept by the Washington Post.

All told, an estimated 285,404 more people died than would be expected in a typical year, the CDC reported............https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-coronavirus-pandemic-has-caused-nearly-300000-more-deaths-than-expected-in-a-typical-year/ar-BB1ad6lv?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U508DHP

 

[papasmurfbell]

I was watching how many of the AA county council members were trying to force everything open in the county.  I would love to see someone at a hearing ask since members cant be legally liable for excess deaths that they on their honor commit harakiri if they are wrong.

[vmax]

They are starting to look into this. The numbers are stunning.....

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Three Democratic US senators have asked the US Health and Human Services Secretary and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director to explain what they're doing to investigate a "highly alarming" excess of deaths in the United States, above and beyond the more than 200,000 fatalities directly attributed to Covid-19.

"Newly released CDC data reveal that 'an estimated 299,028 excess deaths occurred from late January through October 3, 2020, with 198,081 (66%) excess deaths attributed to Covid-19.' These are highly alarming data, revealing that, in addition to the horrific toll known from Covid-19 in the United States, over 100,000 more fatalities may have been directly or indirectly associated with the pandemic," Senators Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Baldwin and Tina Smith wrote. "This new accounting of excess fatalities is particularly disturbing because it comes as President Trump continues to downplay the toll of the pandemic with a series of blustering falsehoods about the about the disease "affect[ing] virtually nobody" as he attempts to distract the nation from his failed response to the pandemic."..........https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/29/health/covid-excess-deaths-senators-letter/index.html

 

[papasmurfbell]

The report on 60 mins is stunning.