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Old 06-07-2021, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by tuccillo View Post
The CDC website has the number of excess deaths. This is the number of deaths above what would normally be expected. Since COVID-19 was the extraordinary event of 2020, a high percentage of the excess deaths can be attributed either directly or indirectly to COVID-19. Some estimates have 80% of the excess deaths due to COVID-19. The reason to look at excess deaths is because the cause of each death, as reported on a death certificate, doesn't matter to the number.

Bingo! This is the scientific approach to evaluating the data. Notice how subsequent posts ignore this logic.