Re: covid-- "Trump was a comorbidity." Half a million excess deaths!

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2. Don't need to be comparable to W Europe

the US has very accurate records of deaths, and COVID was a red flag in the number of excess deaths (though BumRushDaShow taught me this at the time)

Published in the journal Science Advances, the findings show that the high excess death rates that burdened large metropolitan areas in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions in the initial months of the pandemic began to shift to non-metropolitan areas in the South and West as early as August 2020, with the sharpest increases occurring during the surge of the highly contagious Delta variant in the spring and summer of 2021.

The study identifies a total of 1,179,024 excess deaths from March 2020 through February 2022, including an estimated 634,830 excess deaths from March 2020 to February 2021, and 544,194 estimated excess deaths from March 2021 to February 2022.

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2023/new-excess-mortality-estimates-show-increases-in-us-rural-mortality-during-second-year-of-covid-19-pandemic/