Posted on 05/15/2021 1:26:00 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
As of March 31, 2021, more than 552,000 Americans had died of Covid, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), quite a lot, but the killing did not stop there.
An additional 83,000 Americans died in excess of average mortality on a weekly basis, comparing death rates published by CDC from 2014 through 2021, bringing excess mortality since the beginning of the pandemic to 635,000 since Jan. 2020.
In 2014, the average number of deaths per week was 50,979; in 2015 it was 51,957; in 2016, it was 52,473; in 2017 it was 53,932; in 2018, it was 54,461; and in 2019, it was 54,729. Overall, the average annual growth rate in mortality from 2014 to 2019 was about 1.2 percent.
Then, in 2020, with Covid, the average weekly death rate jumped to 64,774. Overall mortality jumped by more than 20 percent in 2020, from 2.84 million to 3.43 million, well above what it would have been simply accounting for the growing population.
Had there never been any Covid, an additional 635,000 Americans would have been alive as of March 31. But it raises an important question, why did an additional 83,000 Americans die during the pandemic on top of those attributed directly to Covid by the CDC? Was it the lockdowns?
For example, in 2019, the average weekly death rate of Alzheimer’s disease was 2,328, or 121,100 for the year. But in 2020, that number jumped to 2,566, or 136,004.
Or, heart disease killed 12,632 weekly in 2019, and 656,900 total, but in 2020, it was up to 13,307 a week and 691,983 for the year.
Or, diabetes killed 1,680 per week in 2019, and 87,407 total, but in 2020, it jumped to 1,942 a week and 101,081 for the year....
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I would be interested in knowing how many people pre-Covid had a history of normal blood sugar levels but are now in pre-diabetes territory.
I do not know for sure, but my guess would be that stress is not good for blood sugar levels. Stress induces stress eating, that we know.
CDC says the bad reactions to the vaccines is due to stress not the vaccines; you know, like, paralysis and death and other reactions.
But the people who get the vaccines are largely people afraid of getting the dread virus ‘rona. Thus, the vaccine should relieve their stress.
I had a very good friend who died in January. He was afraid of going to the hospital because of covid. When I and other friends convinced him to go, it was too late. He had cancer and died a week later.
True - but the CDC knows best.
Humans are social animals. For many elderly it is seeing their family that motivates them to keep going. Without that hope I’m sure a lot of people surrendered who in other years would have fought through health issues.
People were afraid to get medical attention for things they normally would have. Also, your mood affects your health in a big way and a locked down society is not mentally healthy which leads to physical health issues.
I don’t think the lock downs were justified. It was a response to leftists sniffing at power who demanded action during an election year. And they continue to blame it on Trump. The whole country suffered for it and will keep on suffering for it.
1. Covid is real.
2. Our reaction to it is insane and has caused many deaths.
3. We had and have medicines to treat it that were dirt cheap. I am a clinical pharmacist and know this. Big Pharma is complicit in this. It is about big money for them.
4. The disease became a means for a political desire of the left, it worked.
5. The media is complicit in this also. They have great doctors as consultants of extreme intelligence that knew the truth. It was ignored by the media for political purposes.
George Orwell (1984) was a brilliant predictor of man.
A lot of people couldn’t see their regular MDs or specialists to get semi normal things taken care. After a few months, those normal things could be deadly during the pandemic.
A 50 year old daughter of friends was having blackouts and couldn’t see her cardiologist due to the Covid BS.. Turned out she was in dire need of a pace maker. She came close to dying and her family finally got the cardio guy at the local hospital to step in. She got the pace maker inserted, and 2 days later left the hospital and is doing great.
My 2nd toe on my right foot was falling over the big toe. This impacted my walking and basically eliminated any PT or exercise involving that foot. I was scheduled for removing that toe in the third week of March. As of March 13 that no longer an option due to the pandemic. I finally had the toe removed in late Sept, last year.
My wife’s vision was getting worse each day and she had to stop driving on her own. She was scheduled for an in office laser treatment the 2nd week in April. That didn’t happen until about 8 weeks ago. With in a week post treatment, her vision returned to 20/20.
Our delayed treatments for basically simple procedures were nothing compared to relatives/friends, post stroke, needing cardiac stents, cancer diagnosis and delayed treatment.
Also, but not least a few “new” diabetics in a family with no history of diabetes. Their family doc feels that covid stress might have brought on the diabetes.
One of my wife’s brothers was unable to see his internist and had a bleeding stroke about 3 months ago. Fortunately his wife and a son got him out of the hospital and into great home care. He is doing great now. He needed care out of the hospital not in the hospital.
Another female friend’s husband was put into hospice for a severe terminal blood disorder along with his real Parkinson’s. Fortunately, another doctor had the tests redone. The husband does not have that disorder and left the hospice. He is home since the first of the week being treated for his real problems.
Exactly. Isolating the elderly was an extraordinarily cruel strategy.
My DIL’s father, age 69, was diagnosed with stage IV liver cancer in early December. He died 10 days later. She’s a rabid Trump hater and of course blamed Trump for “not doing anything about Covid,” and claimed that the doctors were so busy treating “thousands of dying Covid patients” that they couldn’t care for her father adequately. Of course he drank like a fish for 50 years and pry would have refused the advised treatment anyway. Sigh.
No, it was 83,000,000. Might as well go big.
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