Tag: excess deaths
The increase in deaths in 2020 and 2021 far exceeds deaths attributed to COVID. 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…
Historically, death rates suggest undercounting more likely. 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 deat…
