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Originally Posted by driveway
I think it’s worse than that, I believe you’re comparing annual totals to the ongoing Covid deaths. So, Covid has killed more Americans in about four months than Alzheimer’s did in all of 2017.
Cancer and Heart Disease kill 50-55,000 Americans a month, Covid is averaging about 30,000. Since January Covid-19 has gone from literally non-existent to the third leading cause of death in the US.
For comparison, in Canada about 2,000 people a month have been dying of this illness, a rate which also places Covid as the third leading cause of death in the nation.
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Certainly...it’s a running total for Covid. I was trying to imply exactly what you posted. It is scary that a disease unknown at this time last year is resulting in these numbers even considering the whole co-morbidity excuses people want to use. It comes down to people not understanding that it’s not 10s of millions that die in the US every year but about 2.5 million. Adding 150-200k out of the blue is shocking.