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Re:Daily U.S. death toll will exceed 9/11′s for months, CDC ... by vonmoltke on Friday December 11, 2020 @02:23PM (#25389616)
Agreed. If you go up two graphs to "Excess mortality for all ages"[1], though, you can see the same stat as a percentage delta from the average of the five preceding years.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid#excess-mor...

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Re:Daily U.S. death toll will exceed 9/11′s for months, CDC ... by timeeater on Friday December 11, 2020 @03:02PM (#25390203)
Better, but they should also adjust for increase in population sizes.
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