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.

Week ending 2/1/2020 to 12/12/2020.*

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

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.

Week ending 2/1/2020 to 12/12/2020.*

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

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.

Week ending 2/1/2020 to 12/12/2020.*

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

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.