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GriffenRamsey

(181 posts)
Mon May 11, 2020, 02:36 PM May 2020

Are these numbers being manipulated?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

I feel like I'm missing something, but I cannot figure out why excess deaths would fall to 61% of expected two weeks ago and then 16% this week. The haven't been below 95% since February. Did people quit dying? It looks like they are just not there.

Updated May 11, 2020

Week ending date in which the death occurred COVID-19 Deaths (U07.1)1 Deaths from All Causes Percent of Expected Deaths2 Pneumonia Deaths
(J12.0–J18.9)3 Deaths with Pneumonia and COVID-19
(J12.0–J18.9 and U07.1)3 Influenza Deaths
(J09–J11)4 Deaths with Pneumonia, Influenza, or COVID-19
(U07.1 or J09–J18.9)5
Total Deaths 49,867 808,851 95 74,756 21,974 6,046 107,825
2/1/2020 0 57,448 97 3,700 0 472 4,172
2/8/2020 1 57,782 97 3,688 0 501 4,190
2/15/2020 0 57,096 97 3,712 0 521 4,233
2/22/2020 2 57,068 98 3,577 0 542 4,121
2/29/2020 7 57,286 100 3,666 5 623 4,291
3/7/2020 29 56,910 98 3,769 16 597 4,378
3/14/2020 50 54,959 96 3,731 25 591 4,346
3/21/2020 507 55,073 97 4,233 231 504 5,007
3/28/2020 2,786 58,522 105 5,740 1,265 416 7,629
4/4/2020 8,498 66,223 118 9,047 4,068 442 13,701
4/11/2020 13,422 71,028 128 10,658 5,983 445 18,213
4/18/2020 12,890 65,345 121 9,320 5,529 238 16,746
4/25/2020 8,471 52,945 98 6,527 3,568 119 11,468
5/2/2020 2,613 32,669 61 2,726 1,047 32 4,311
5/9/2020 591 8,497 16 662 237 - 1,019
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Are these numbers being manipulated? (Original Post) GriffenRamsey May 2020 OP
Gosh. Ya think? Squinch May 2020 #1

Squinch

(50,774 posts)
1. Gosh. Ya think?
Mon May 11, 2020, 02:40 PM
May 2020

The CDC that is suddenly telling meat packing plants that they don't really have to do anything to mitigate COVID outbreaks if they don't feel like it?

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