well, that’s a good question.
The 1.8% overall does include 186,000 nursing home deaths (AARP numbers)
https://www.aarp.org/ppi/issues/caregiving/info-2020/nursing-home-covid-dashboard.html
here’s some charts that show the nursing home deaths flatlined , excuse the wordplay, after Jan. as they were vaccinated in droves:
https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/covid19/ltc-report-overview.html
We’re still left with plus 600K deaths of ‘not’ nursing home deaths
For the math, 600K over 48M cases as of Dec 1 (to be fair not to add the new Omi cases into the mix), it’s still a mortality rate of 1.3% for those under nursing home age. Either way you separate it out, tho, it’s 1 in 400 Americans already dead from covid.
And, the death rate of Omi isn’t added - and there are some deaths in the UK but not enough to really call a percentage yet.
From Nov 22 for reference: 47.7 million cases/771,500
USA Today numbers via yahoo
https://news.yahoo.com/2021-us-covid-death-count-100257576.html
‘Either way you separate it out, tho, it’s 1 in 400 Americans already dead from covid.’
if you’re stupid enough to believe government issue numbers about covid ‘deaths’ (whether the proximate cause of death or not, just the inclusion of covid on the death cert counts as a covid mortality) there’s really not much anyone can do for your condition...