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According to the CDC's total death numbers for past years, a normal 2020 would have 2,890,000 deaths: 2.86m in 2019, annual increase of ~20,000 deaths, and +8,000 for the leap day.
They are still assembling the numbers, but we are on track for 2.92m, give or take. A whole 30,000 above expectations. CDC says "excess death" is over 325,000, NYT extrapolates and says probably 384k. Either of those numbers would put "total death" at over 3.2 million.
NYT says covid increased total death this year by 11%, but the total death numbers say it only increased 1%, compared to a baseline of 2.89m. I've been archiving their covid page every week or so, so that we can analyze the changes later. I want to catch them inserting a quarter million false deaths at the last minute.
More than 3.2 million dead is the only way they can turn out to be honest about covid. Less than 2.9 million and covid doesn't even exist.
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According to the CDC's total death numbers for past years, a normal 2020 would have 2,890,000 deaths: 2.86m in 2019, annual increase of ~20,000 deaths, and +8,000 for the leap day.
They are still assembling the numbers, but we are on track for 2.92m, give or take. A whole 30,000 above expectations. CDC says "excess death" is over 325,000, NYT extrapolates and says probably 384k. Either of those numbers would put "total death" at over 3.2 million.
NYT says covid increased total death this year by 11%, but the total death numbers say it only increased 1%, compared to a baseline of 2.89m.
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