2 million people die every year in USA.
That is 5500 people every day.
What that means is 5500 people are ripe to die every day.
Even a mild attack of covid is enough to hasten the death by a few weeks/months. But is that really a covid death or is it a death in waiting speeded up by a few weeks?
>>2 million people die every year in USA.
That is 5500 people every day.
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About 1.7 million of them are elderly. New replacements in the 65+ population arrive each day.
With a normal death count per year of 1.7M, and you add 450K to them, you get an increase of 26% over normal death totals.
Oldsters can’t be happy with that.
As for a few weeks, the life expectancy of a 75 year old in the US is 12.2 years. The overall expected age at death rises with age, of course. Whereas 77 is the overall life expectancy of a newborn, it is 87 for a 75 yr old, because that guy already dodged a lot of early killers.
So no, it’s not just a few weeks.