Posted on 07/05/2022 2:16:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin
COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States between March 2020 and October 2021, according to an analysis of national death certificate data by researchers at the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. The study appears July 5 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
During the 20-month period studied, COVID-19 accounted for 1 in 8 deaths (or 350,000 deaths) in the United States. Heart disease was the number one cause of death, followed by cancer, with these two causes of death accounting for a total of 1.29 million deaths. Accidents and stroke were the fourth and fifth leading causes of death. In every age group 15 years and older, COVID-19 was one of the top five causes of death during this period.
When the authors analyzed deaths in 2020 (March–December) and in 2021 (January–October) separately, they found that in 2020, COVID-19 was the fourth and fifth leading cause of death among people ages 45–54 and 35–44, respectively. But in 2021, COVID-19 became the first and second leading cause of death in these age groups. Among those 85 and older, COVID-19 was the second leading cause of death in 2020, but dropped to third in 2021, likely because of targeted vaccination efforts in this age group.
The pandemic has also had an indirect effect on other causes of death in the United States. Past data have shown that deaths from other causes, including heart disease, accidents, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and diabetes increased from 2019 to 2020, possibly because people were reluctant to seek medical care for fear of catching COVID-19. Additional impacts of the pandemic on other causes of death may emerge in the years to come, the researchers said. For example, the pandemic prevented many people from getting regular cancer screening, which may result in future increases in cancer deaths.
Vaxxers ignored every post that proved facts. I can remember people saying, where are the vaxxers?
( 1,018,118 "U.S. Deaths" / 332,854,012 "U.S. Population" ) x 100 = 0.306 percent mortality rate over two and one half years.
Sources: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/ and https://www.census.gov/popclock/
From Shiels' NIH article: "During the 20-month period studied, COVID-19 accounted for 1 in 8 deaths (or 350,000 deaths) in the United States." Given "with" mingled statistically with "from" ("from being Birx' 6 percent estimate) and given the questionable taxonomic data collection, reporting and analysis, her summary of someone else's work (JAMA) doesn't jive with the above documented 0.306 percent mortality rate over two and one half years.
As a tidbit, Shiel's NIH cites Sheils's article in JAMA as she is lead author. The JAMA article includes: "Our analysis was limited by potential misclassification of the cause of death and incomplete death data for 2021."
In case one misses the point, "potential missclassification of the cause of death" seems a sturdy bit of methodolgy on which to publish "science." Political science, that is.
Fortunately the flu disappeared or it would have been a lot worse.
Not hard to believe at all.
One reason why...
https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20210629/fema-amends-covid-19-funeral-assistance-policy
“...This policy change was made after consulting with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention officials and other health experts. The new policy provides applicants, as well as medical authorities, coroners and jurisdictions, flexibility to attribute a death to COVID-19 without amending the death certificate. The change also provides flexibility with documentation for the period before the CDC-published and implemented COVID-19 death certificate guidance in the spring of 2020...”
Without seeing the medical records, including labs, for those deaths, we don’t know for certain that they died due to the coof.
Elections aren’t the only things in dire need of an audit.
If a patient died of the flu, the hospital had ti eat the costs. But, if the same patient was listed as Covid, the gooberment paid big bucks. Follow the money.
Why do you think the annual flu all but disappeared the last 2 years?
Look back on how many died during a typical flu season, that is real close to the real number, mainly because that is what Covid really was, a flue season.
It’d be interesting to see what the numbers for dementia and for failure to thrive have done since early 2020...
If Deep State is screwing with the numbers, those deaths could easily be blamed on the coof without anyone likely making a stink.
For people 18-45 years of age, the leading cause was drug overdoses.
The hospital classed me a covid hospitalization after I refused the test.
Fentanyl overdoses become No. 1 cause of death among US adults, ages 18-45: ‘A national emergency’
More adults between 18 and 45 died of fentanyl overdoses in 2020 than COVID-19, motor vehicle accidents, cancer and suicide
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fentanyl-overdoses-leading-cause-death-adults
And that was only from fentanyl. In 2021, nearly 108,000 died from drug overdoses in general. Two-thirds of those deaths involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl.
Without seeing the medical records, including labs, for those deaths, we don’t know for certain that they died due to the coof.
Elections aren’t the only things in dire need of an audit.
Exactly. And, the CDC even admitted they LIED on many of the *cases* counted.
(Pssst....you won’t get an answer from the $W$$s until they clock back in, on their next $hift. Working 9-5 🎶)
As I said, health authorities have already admitted this was a standard practice, so no I don’t need to provide 1 million cases. Once fraud has been admitted, and admitted to be a standard practice, then the onus is on those who want to claim the numbers are legitimate to prove that they are, not the other way around.
Boogieman wrote: “As I said, health authorities have already admitted this was a standard practice, so no I don’t need to provide 1 million cases.”
You’re missing this important point which is ‘proximate cause’, what is the primary cause. If a person is walking along a cliff (he has comorbidities) and someone pushes him over the cliff, the proximate cause isn’t the comorbidity, it is the person who pushed him.
Some are particularly fond of the motorcycle accident being listed as COVID, but that one incident doesn’t mean there weren’t a million deaths accurately attributed to COVID.
“You’re missing this important point which is ‘proximate cause’, what is the primary cause.”
I’m not missing the point at all. Health authorities have admitted that they were regularly listing COVID as the primary cause of death when it was not. Because the federal government gave them a hefty financial incentive to do so.
After such an admission, it’s up to you to prove that wasn’t the case for those 1 million deaths you want everyone to believe were legitimately attributed to COVID. Better get to work exhuming the bodies.
When you call every unfortunate passing as COVID-19(84) then.....
Talked to a customer at a local gas station about 8 months back.
His uncle (RIP) had a stroke or maybe a heart attack. Poor guy.
Customer saw the death certificate regarding his uncle.
Cause of death? COVID-19(84).
Wonder if theres records showing payments for reported covid deaths.....
Boogieman wrote: “I’m not missing the point at all. Health authorities have admitted that they were regularly listing COVID as the primary cause of death when it was not. Because the federal government gave them a hefty financial incentive to do so.”
So, what percentage of those million deaths attributed to COVID do you really believe were caused by COVID?
“So, what percentage of those million deaths attributed to COVID do you really believe were caused by COVID?”
I have no way of knowing that, since the statistics were compiled by people committing fraud. But I’m certainly not going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that the statistics as compiled are at all reliable.
“The novel coronavirus was the third leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020 and 2021, accounting for 350,000 deaths, according to national death certificate data reviewed by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).”
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/covid-pandemic-deaths/2022/07/06/id/1077565/
The same AMA that thinks that genital mutilation is a proper treatment for a mental illness?
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