Unprecedented Excess Death Toll Keeps Climbing

Health officials would have you believe that the majority of these excess deaths were due to COVID-19, but even the CDC states, on their webpage tracking provisional death counts for COVID-19:3.

"Finally, the estimates of excess deaths reported here may not be due to COVID-19, either directly or indirectly. The pandemic may have changed mortality patterns for other causes of death. Upward trends in other causes of death may contribute to excess deaths in some jurisdictions. Future analyses of cause-specific excess mortality may provide additional information about these patterns."

Excess mortality - that is, deaths in excess of the historical average - due to causes other than COVID-19 has also risen among males and minorities, particularly black males.

"Early evidence suggests a combination of factors, including deaths of despair, murders, uninfected Alzheimer's patients, reduced health care use, and economic dislocation" were responsible for the significant increase in excess mortality among minorities, with researchers writing in PNAS, "Nearly half of the excess life years lost in 2020 are due to non-COVID-19 causes."6.

Heart disease and strokes appear to be behind many of the excess deaths, with the Financial Times reporting, "The new phase of excess deaths raises the possibility that since the summer more people have been losing their lives as a result of strains on the NHS or lack of early diagnosis of serious illness"13.

"What the data is showing to us is that the deaths that are being reported as COVID deaths greatly understate the actual death losses among working-age people from the pandemic. It may not all be COVID on their death certificate, but deaths are up just huge, huge numbers."

Clarity on excess death data - specifically how many are truly attributable to COVID-19 and how many to other causes - is also essential for the public to make informed decisions about health care, shots and lifestyle during the pandemic, but such clarity is clearly lacking from the CDC. 

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