U.S. 'excess deaths' during pandemic surpassed 1 million, with covid killing most
Source: Washington Post
The United States has recorded more than 1 million excess deaths since the start of the pandemic, government mortality statistics show, a toll that exceeds the officially documented lethality of the coronavirus and captures the broad consequences of the health crisis that has entered its third year. The excess deaths figure surpassed the milestone last week, reaching 1,023,916, according to Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions National Center for Health Statistics.
The center updates its estimate weekly. Although the vast majority of the excess deaths are due to the virus, the CDC mortality records also expose swollen numbers of deaths from heart disease, hypertension, dementia and other ailments across two years of pandemic misery. Weve never seen anything like it, Anderson said. In 2019, before the pandemic, the CDC recorded 2.8 million deaths. But in 2020 and 2021, as the virus spread through the population, the country recorded roughly a half-million deaths each year in excess of the norm.
The virus emerged in China in late 2019 and began killing people there in January 2020. It did not spread significantly in the United States until that February, and not until the final week of March 2020 did it begin to send the excess deaths metric soaring. The CDCs excess deaths tracker shows in graphic detail the speed and intensity of that initial wave: Deaths had soared more than 40 percent above normal nationally in the second week of April 2020.
The lethality was concentrated in a few hot spots: In the second week of April, deaths in New York City were seven times the norm. But some regions had minimal change in mortality for many months. The CDC mortality branchs official count of deaths from covid-19 stood at 911,145 as of Tuesday. The mortality researchers rely on death certificates, and that tally can be slightly lower than other CDC or academic trackers that rely on data from other sources. Anderson said 91 percent of the deaths from covid tracked by his unit were attributed directly to the disease. In the other 9 percent of deaths, covid was listed as a contributing factor but not the primary cause.
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Full headline:U.S. excess deaths during pandemic surpassed 1 million, with covid killing most but other diseases adding to the toll, CDC says
turbinetree
(24,683 posts)and would go away, because he was more worried about making money.......he has everyone one of these deaths on his miserable self serving hands....every last one......and he didn't even try to save the stupid's running around believing his hogwash....
Farmer-Rick
(10,135 posts)Only the civil war killed a larger percent of Americans but we haven't finished with COVID yet. Ready for new variant? I bet it's coming cause of anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers spreading it and getting it to evolve into god knows what.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)I often think of how much was changed with airport security, the wars, new government agencies, open racism against brown people, reforms of all sorts of things happened after 9/11.
COVID causes a 9/11 amount of deaths every day or so and some people won't do the bare minimum.
Pobeka
(4,999 posts)It's still an incredible shame.
Greatest country in the world? Not by this metric for sure.
If all americans cared about America the number would only be in the 10's of thousands.
Farmer-Rick
(10,135 posts)I was thinking number of voters.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)My sympathy is only for the ones who chose to wear masks, take the vaccine, and followed the guidelines the best they could since many got infected through their jobs helping others.
No sympathy for antivaxx maskholes. Bye Felicia
Evolve Dammit
(16,697 posts)has resulted in a million deaths and a division we have not seen for 160 years
Rhiannon12866
(204,759 posts)We need this reminder of his lethal lie each and every day - despite the fact that he knew in February 2020 exactly how dangerous this virus is, thanks to Bob Woodward's interview.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)YIKES!
Visually gross:
Could fill Texas Stadium, every seat, with a dead person, many times over!
pandr32
(11,553 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Especially in counties with ideologically inclined coroners/ health depts.
cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)The Economist had a great breakdown between reported covid deaths and overall increase in mortality in a country by country basis. The US was not anywhere near one of the worst.