That's an increase of 436,257 overall deaths in the US. And it's in a year where doctors and nurses around the country are saying they're overwhelmed at times with patients suffering from a new disease, with many deaths.
"flu deaths which wouldn’t change actual yearly death rates much anyway (which they haven’t changed much) because it’s just another variant of COVID."
Influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 are not even remotely related. They're as similar as humans and snails. They're both viruses; that's it. But you're right that flu deaths don't have much impact. Influenza accounts for an average of 36,000 deaths in the US each year. Source
I semi was as well meaning the more realistic ~40k (vice ~400k+) covid-19 deaths wouldn’t affect the over all US death rate by much.
Influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 are not even remotely related. Agree I was just adding covid-19 (common cold variant) to the flu and pneumonia death rates.
I don’t believe anything the CDC has to say.
2020’s attributed COVID-19 deaths were equivalent to having another 2017-2018 flu and pneumonia season boosted by 13 percent.