Here are the totals for the first 47 weeks of each year:
2017 2515944
2018 2551868
2019 2559485
2020 2886361
Based on this data, total deaths are indeed up over 300,000 this year vs each of the last 3 years.
I think perhaps where OP (or whoever made that screenshot) got confused is that the data at the second link they provided does not include January of this year.
Sure enough, if you subtract the missing 23 days in January from the 317 total on that slide for 2020, deaths per day becomes 8385 and projected deaths for 2020 becomes 3060525 which is 221320 more than 2018. At the time of this slide (November 13) worldometers reports 249899 US covid deaths. Given that other causes of death are predicted to be down, that seems pretty close to the official numbers.
Ah conspiracies.win, where actual statistics are silently downvoted and sexy photos of the first lady are upvoted to the top. What a quality place we've got here.
I'm skeptical of this sketchy screenshot, but was intrigued so I pulled the last 3 years of weekly raw data from the CDC and ran the numbers myself.
Here's where I downloaded weekly raw data from: https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html
Here are the totals for the first 47 weeks of each year:
2017 2515944
2018 2551868
2019 2559485
2020 2886361
Based on this data, total deaths are indeed up over 300,000 this year vs each of the last 3 years.
I think perhaps where OP (or whoever made that screenshot) got confused is that the data at the second link they provided does not include January of this year.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
Sure enough, if you subtract the missing 23 days in January from the 317 total on that slide for 2020, deaths per day becomes 8385 and projected deaths for 2020 becomes 3060525 which is 221320 more than 2018. At the time of this slide (November 13) worldometers reports 249899 US covid deaths. Given that other causes of death are predicted to be down, that seems pretty close to the official numbers.
Ah conspiracies.win, where actual statistics are silently downvoted and sexy photos of the first lady are upvoted to the top. What a quality place we've got here.