There've been a few posts recently about how total deaths in the US this year are down compared to previous years. I was curious, so I ran the numbers myself based on the same CDC data that other posters and their sources supposedly used.
I pulled the last 4 years of weekly raw data from the CDC here: https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html
Then I tallied and compared the totals for the first 47 weeks of each year (these numbers are TOTAL DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES in the US):
2017 2515944
2018 2551868
2019 2559485
2020 2886361
Based on this data, total deaths are up by over 300,000 this year vs each of the last 3 years, which were each within 50,000 of one another.
Whenever I mention these stats on conspiracies.win I get downvoted, but nobody ever has a response, so I think I'm on to something!
What do you think could've caused this?
I work in healthcare. A lot of patients are so terrified of covid, they're unwilling to leave their homes for doctor's appts or even to go to the ER with an actual emergency. We've seen a worsening of chronic conditions and the results of delayed screenings and treatment more this year than in many years prior. More patients than usual are dying of heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary emboli, kidney failure, dKA, etc., at home. Healthcare is even more of a mess right now than it was before. Maybe this could account for some of the increased numbers, if those numbers are in fact accurate.