Drone pictures show bodies being buried on New York's Hart Island where the department of corrections is dealing with more burials overall, amid the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, April 9. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
This year is on track to be the deadliest in U.S. history with a total of more than 3 million deaths expected by the end of December, due in large part to the coronavirus pandemic, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The Associated Press reported Tuesday that preliminary numbers suggest the U.S. will have at least 3.2 million deaths by the end of 2020, about 400,000 more than in 2019.
The U.S. has recorded more than 319,000 coronavirus-related deaths as of Tuesday, with more than 18 million total infections, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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WNU Editor: As bad as 2020 has been, 2021 will probably be worse. The pandemic will still be raging for the first half of the year, and with high unemployment expected in 2021, the social and health costs associated with such economic conditions have always result in higher death tolls.
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Do these people not realize that to achieve the 3.2m, over 8700 people would have to die everyday for an entire year.
I read that the average is 7,000+ die per day in the USA from every cause out there. Homicide, heart attacks, suicide, car accidents, etc.
Maybe I got it wrong, but they said 3.2 million dead implying it's from covid-19. 3.2m divided by 365 is close to 8700 I think.
I see now how I got that number. I still say the writers are playing fast and loose with these numbers.
"As bad as 2020 has been, 2021 will probably be worse. "
A nursing home was temporarily shuttered. The residents were spread out to other nursing homes. The nursing ho9me will be reopened in the next few years. That is the only effect of COVID outside of the lockdowns. It probably does not even hurt the bottom line of the corporation. They are losing paying customers, but get more per COVID patient due to Congress.
Could the author perform a linear regression to analyze outliers? New York is an outlier to overall deaths in the US. New York has a higher more deaths than Florida, which has more older citizens than New York. This after Cuomo a.k.a. grandma killer takes out the NYC death toll. Much of the high death toll comes from Democrat governors forced COVID patients into nursing homes in NY, PA, & NJ.
"While the AP noted that deaths normally rise by about 20,000 to 50,000 each year due to aging and a continuously growing population, the 15 percent increase in deaths from 2019"
The Hill article is BULLSHIT. UTTER BULLSHIT! They provide some context when they compare year to year. They do not control for age. If they controlled for age, they would show seniors hard hit and everyone else not facing a 15% increase death rate. But then they would not have as much of a scare "story".
If they controlled for age they would show an increase and in a the next 3 years they will show a dip.
Why not control for age? We see so many studies reported where the control for race, income level or some other factor. Why are we not told that controlling for age, this is what was found? Not as good of a scare "story".
WNU is very good at diplomacy and is a Louisville slugger in that field. He just is sucking wind when it comes to COVID (stats) or he has an agenda.
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