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Old 04-25-2021, 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Bill14564 View Post
Do you dispute that nearly 600,000 more people died in the US in 2020 than in 2019, 2018, or 2017?

If we can accept the data from the States, as aggregated and reported by both the CDC, JHU, and the Covid Tracking Project then how can the 600,000 additional deaths be explained if they were not due to Covid? Did the hospitals cause those deaths in their effort to collect the extra per-patient reimbursement?
The death totals for the US in 2020 have not been released. There are no 600,000 additional deaths in 2020. Anyone using that figure is basing it on the assumption of the coded Covid deaths being added the the projected deaths for 2020. From the CDC’s website “Because of the time needed to investigate certain causes of death and to process and review data, final annual mortality data for a given year are typically released 11 months after the end of the calendar year.” Any death totals for 2020 are based on assumptions, not actual data...