[LilFarmer]

Italy Makes a Stunning Announcement About Their COVID-19 Death Toll: Death counts in the hard-hit country from revised from 130,000 to fewer than 4,000, a 97% decrease

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4009921/posts

[Steve_Seattle]

Thanks. I saw that in PJ Media but I think it's behind their pay wall.

Coincidentally, I was doing some math a week or two ago, and I concluded that the death toll from Covid ALONE was probably between 3-6% of all the deaths reported for the year.

If we end up with 800,000 alleged Covid deaths by the end of the year, that would average to 400,000 per year over two years. Annual deaths run around 2.6 - 2.8 million in the US, so Covid would have accounted for about 15-16% of all deaths.

If you eliminate all those elderly people who died with one or more comorbidities, the death toll from Covid ALONE is probably only about 3-6% of total deaths (from all causes) during the height of the pandemic. It seems that Covid just shifted a lot of deaths from the cancer column and the stroke column etc. to the Covid column, and maybe sped them up a few months.