Tag: excess deaths
One of my favorite conspiracy theorists suggested that the government was exaggerating the number of deaths due to COVID-19. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, COVID deaths for 2020 and 2021 totaled 842,000, and with Omicron the total has continued to climb in 2022. Indeed, at a news conference early in the pandemic,…
I was curious about whether we were overcounting or undercounting the number of deaths from COVID-19. At an early news conference, Deborah Birx, MD – the response coordinator for the White House coronavirus task force – indicated that the United States was more likely to attribute a death to COVID-19 than other countries. In som…
