Johns Hopkins took this study down, but someone had archived it.
A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19
"This trend is completely contrary to the pattern observed in all previous years. Interestingly, as depicted in the table below, the total decrease in deaths by other causes almost exactly equals the increase in deaths by COVID-19. This suggests, according to Briand, that the COVID-19 death toll is misleading. Briand believes that deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia may instead be recategorized as being due to COVID-19."
Look at the "Weekly Number of Deaths" infograph. You can select whichever state you want, or look at the U.S. as a whole. You can see we have clearly had a lot more people die this year than normal.
I need a source on the 6% statistic so I can convince my paranoid friend that it's nit as bad as the media is saying.
Johns Hopkins took this study down, but someone had archived it.
A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 "This trend is completely contrary to the pattern observed in all previous years. Interestingly, as depicted in the table below, the total decrease in deaths by other causes almost exactly equals the increase in deaths by COVID-19. This suggests, according to Briand, that the COVID-19 death toll is misleading. Briand believes that deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia may instead be recategorized as being due to COVID-19."
https://web.archive.org/web/20201126223119/https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/11/a-closer-look-at-u-s-deaths-due-to-covid-19
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Look at the "Weekly Number of Deaths" infograph. You can select whichever state you want, or look at the U.S. as a whole. You can see we have clearly had a lot more people die this year than normal.
Look at New York for a good example.