Is The Coronavirus Saving Lives? Overall deaths in the U.S. are actually lower over the last few months than they have been in recent years

Powerline ^ | 04/23/2020 | John Hinderaker

[one guy in new jersey]

My sister told me today that accordibg to the staff of the NJ nursing home my mother lives in, a COVID-19 test she recently took came up positive. The staff is saying she is asymptomatic. But, we don’t have the ability to visit her. Plus, her new status as Covid-19-Positive means that the staff of the nursing home will no longer be supporting or allowing the video chats my sister has been having with her periodically. So, we can’t independently verify her asymptomaticity.
Are we being groomed, the goal being to lull us into a false sense of security, and/or to refrain from demanding that she be put on the HCQ/Zinc/Z-pack regimen? I fear she may be in grave danger, and not solely due to the risk of fatal illness. Nursing homes right now have a perverse financial incentive to ring up large numbers of COVID-19 deaths. Anne Barnhardt just published a posting on this very issue. Had it appeared on the DrudgeReport website of old, it probably would have gotten the “flashing red light” treatment. Barnhardt is stronhly suggesting some very evil people (i.e., people obsessed with radical depopulation and euthanasia) are already taking advantage of this crisis to run rampant. I’m not sure she’s wrong. Considering options...

[MAGAthon]

VIDEO: 4m42s: 24 Apr: Fox News: Laura Ingraham takes a critical look at Gov. Cuomo’s leadership
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6151736398001

[redinIllinois]

Prayers for your mother!!

[trebb]

Maybe a fun mental exercise but useless other than for amusement purposes.

[simpson96]

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[daniel1212]

How can this be? Some have suggested that the fact that most of us are staying home has reduced the number of traffic fatalities, on-the-job accidents, and perhaps other causes of death. But there are only around 3,000 traffic fatalities per month, and the other causes that have been suggested are far smaller. Collectively, reductions in those causes of death would account for only a portion of the reduced fatality numbers, even if COVID-19 had not killed anyone at all.

Without actual comparative numbers I cannot answer the question, but as concerns other causes of death:

• About 7,196 Americans die evAbout 7,196 Americans die every day in the US from a wide range of causes, both natural and unnatural. (https://www.weisspaarz.com/leading-causes-death-by-state/)

• More than 2600 Americans die every day of cardiovascular disease. ("Hidden," Jones & Bartlett Publishers)

• Doctors blamed heart disease for 647,457 deaths in 2017 — more than four times the number of deaths caused by the next most common cause, chronic lower respiratory diseases. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/60/)

• 274 people die every day from blood clots, according to the National Blood Clot Alliance. (https://health.usnews.com/conditions/articles/what-are-the-warning-signs-of-a-blood-clot)

• In 2017, 83,564 people died from complications related to diabetes. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/55/) It is frequently stated in scientific and lay literature that obesity causes about 300 000 deaths per year in the United States...it may difficult to develop accurate and precise estimates. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448478/) Obese people account for 37 percent of the United States’ population, but obesity-related diseases and health problems account for 61 percent of healthcare costs in the United States every year (“The Economics of Overweight and Obesity,” 2007).

• 500 people with diabetes die prematurely every week. (https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about_us/news/premature-deaths-diabetes) Diabetes can cause heart disease, kidney failure, and blindness, and costs the US health care system and employers $237 billion every year. (https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/about/costs/index.htm)

• Up to 80,000 Americans Died of Flu in 2018... 90 percent of those deaths were in people over age 65 (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/health/flu-deaths-vaccine.html) A four-week stretch saw the flu kill older Americans at a rate of 169 people a day, or seven people per hour. (https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2018/older-flu-deaths-rising.html)

• CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010. (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html)

• Accidental poisoning accounted for 64,795 deaths in 2017. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/54/)

• In 2017, 6,118 people died from inflammation of the colon and small intestine caused by infection with the Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, bacteria, which is often resistant to antibiotics.

• 47. In 2017, 6,118 people died from inflammation of the colon and small intestine caused by infection with the Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, bacteria, which is often resistant to antibiotics. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/)

• 1,500 die every day from cancer ... Cancer remains the second-leading cause of death in the U.S., behind heart disease. (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/report-1500-die-every-day-from-cancer/),

• 91 people on average die every day from opioid overdoses (https://247wallst.com/special-report/2017/08/21/how-drug-overdose-is-a-leading-cause-of-death-among-young-people/2/)

• Breast cancer claimed 42,510 lives in 2017. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/49/)

• More than 38,000 people die every year in crashes on U.S. roadways. The U.S. traffic fatality rate is 12.4 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. (https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/)

• About 90 people die each day in the US from crashes (https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/motor-vehicle-safety/index.html) According to CDC statistics, there were 40,231 deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents in 2017. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/47/)

• (Doctors blamed sepsis in the blood — also known as septicemia — for 40,922 deaths in 2017. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/48/)

• HIV was listed as the cause of death for 5,698 Americans in 2017 (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/14/)

• Doctors blamed Parkinson's disease for 31,963 deaths in 2017. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/43/)

• Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 88,000 deaths and 2.5 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) each year in the United States from 2006 – 2010 (https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm)

• Doctors blamed alcohol-related liver diseases for 22,246 deaths in 2017. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/38/)

• According to CDC statistics, 23,854 people died of suicide by gunshot in 2017. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/40/)

• Each day, ten Americans die from asthma, and in 2017, 3,564 people died from it. (https://www.aafa.org/asthma-facts/)

• In 2017, statistics show that 486 people died after accidentally being shot with a gun [#59 out of a list of 61 by CBS, but which lists it as the first page] (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/2/

[allwrong57]

I saw a similar one with deaths by week, the last week shown had 27000 deaths, the average was in the 50’s.

[nickcarraway]

What I am saying is, we don’t need the average we need the range in actual years.