[TexasGator]

“You can try to dance around the numbers, but they are what they are. Doctors posting on this very forum are losing patients. Thankfully, most are living. But yes, there are - in fact - people dying.”

At this time we only have excess deaths for those 74 and older.

[2aProtectsTheRest]

Only if by "at this time", you mean "only at this time and ignoring every other week in the year since March". And the problem with saying "well not this week we don't have excess deaths!" is that death reporting is significantly delayed and gets updated over time. From the chart notes on the CDC's link you posted:

"Data are incomplete because of the lag in time between when the death occurred and when the death certificate is completed, submitted to NCHS and processed for reporting purposes. This delay can range from 1 week to 8 weeks or more, depending on the jurisdiction and cause of death."

Now let's chat about the rest of the year's excess deaths by age group:

That doesn't look like only over 74s to me. Even if it were, their lives still matter. If somebody blows up a nursing home, we don't decline to prosecute that person because the people inside were old. Loss of life matters.