Excess mortality from March to December of 2020

Re:Excess mortality from March to December of 2020 by throwitaway1235 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:47AM (#25312405)

Would total deaths be a more useful data point? CDC states that 2,839,205 Americans died in the year 2018. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

I would be curious to know how many Americans died in 2020, once the year concludes.

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Re:Excess mortality from March to December of 2020 by JoeData on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:49AM (#25312917)

The death data that the CDC has received and processed by yesterday, December 4, have a total of 2,893,571 deaths for weeks 1 through 48 (ending November 28). This number is incomplete because of a lag in reporting. The CDC estimates that there are at least 73,000 more deaths in weeks 1 through 48 that haven't yet been received and processed.

(Note that this data includes the last 3 days of 2019.)

But even with the incomplete count, we have already surpassed 2018 and 2019.

It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future, but it looks we're on track to have 3.2 million to 3.3 million deaths this year. We won't have a firm grasp on the numbers until March.

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Re:Excess mortality from March to December of 2020 by mkolodny on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:20AM (#25312803)

This graph shows 357,335 excess US deaths from January 5 - October 25:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-cumulati...

There have been 2,000 - 3,000 known US Covid-19 deaths per day for the past few days. So, devastatingly, I think that number has gone up a lot since October 25.

https://www.google.com/search?q=us+covid+numbers

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