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Originally Posted by driveway
Where are you getting your numbers from? This site has total US Civilian & Military deaths as 418,500.
280,000 is 67% of that number.
The numbers at worldometer.com are slightly worse: 290,443 deaths in the US. If worldometer is correct, based on the current (rising) 7-day average (2,262/day) deaths, the US will surpass the number of WWII deaths on Wednesday, February 3rd. |
If you look at the cdc's expected death by week chart, that is normally very stable, the US crossed 300,000 more deaths than expected around Sept 19th. Worldometers had the death toll at 203,000 on that date. It seems that the real death toll of the COVID is about 50% higher than reported in the US, so, we're realistically above 430,000 right now.
Also, when you think about it, you come to a very sober realization that due to COVID, 500,000 more people have died this year than would have been expected. So any narrative about most of those people might have died of something else this year is way out of touch with reality.