From 2.5 years ago.
What's your best estimate of the number of Americans who've died because they got a Covid infection?
I’d have to look into that a bit, to give you my own personal estimate. But, for something rough, let’s start with what you said, ~1M.
Well, we can probably throw that right out, based on the US census bureau info, which shows a one time overall US death rate spike in 2020 of 500K, with all other years remaining consistent:
That 500K death increase seems to be the largest I could find, with others showing the covid years all completely flat with regard to the overall US death rate. This was the #1 hit on Google, for example:
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/death-rate
But for 2020 there was possibly a maximum of 500K increase in deaths. Then you’d have to start parsing how many of those died “with covid” verses “from covid” which we all know is not the exact same thing.
In fact, based on The NY Times study already discussed, they may not have even had covid at all, but were treated for it, and the treatments being used by many hospitals and nursing homes were known to have a very high mortality rate.
From ventilators, morphine, Remdesivir, etc, many are believed to have died from treatments applied, and may have been misdiagnosed as having covid to begin with. There was also a well publicized monetary award given out based on reported covid deaths.
So, if you take the 500K total increase in US deaths above normal from the census, and cut that in half to 250K as it appears the 500K number may be an outlier, and remember the NYT study proving unreliability of the PCR tests resulted in massive over-application of some treatment options that often resulted in fatality, as well as people that may have been over-treated due to a financial incentive of the institution, you could be looking at a number of directly attributable covid deaths that’s down around 100K, or less, realistically.
This is a quick 20 minute wag of course, but it matches up pretty close to the shocking admission by the CDC last year that for 94% of the reported deaths attributed to covid, there was actually a “contributing condition”:
According to the report, only 6% of deaths actually have COVID-19 as the only cause mentioned, revealing that 94% of patients who were reported to have died from coronavirus also had other “health conditions and contributing causes.”
So 6% of your 1.1M is, 66K.