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Re:Gov DeWine deploys National Guard to hospitals as COVID d... by mcculley on Sunday December 19, 2021 @10:53AM (#29614829)
I am a little skeptical about the claims in the article that Ohio COVID deaths are higher in 2021 than in 2020. I have been building tooling around the CDC excess deaths reports [0]. Ohio looks like it did not have the same peaks in 2021 as it did in 2020 [1]. There would have to be 11,778 more deaths recorded at this point to catch up to 2020.

Certainly the situation is unacceptable and terrible. But I am not convinced that it is much worse in 2021 than in 2020.

[0]: https://mcculley.github.io/VisualizingObservedDeaths/

[1]: https://mcculley.github.io/VisualizingObservedDeaths/Ohio.pn...

[2]: Ohio deaths:

2018: 124,296

2019: 123,359

2020: 142,210

2021: 130,432

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