IHME projects 562,000 COVID-19 deaths in U.S. by April 1

KOMO News ^ | December 19, 2020 | KOMO News Staff

[MinorityRepublican]

COVID-19 cases and death numbers are increasing in the United States, leading the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) to project 562,000 coronavirus deaths in the United States by April 1.

[vg0va3]

People die each year.

[Rurudyne]

Meanwhile deaths from other causes are by some folks’ reckoning down by about the same amount.

[Rurudyne]

The leading cause of death is birth.

[Semper Vigilantis]

Less if they stopped counting gunshots and heart attack deaths as china-virus.

[conservativepoet]

When shooting victims in Colorado are included as Covid deaths, I’m sure this number will grow.

[Nifster]

So what?

They’ve projected two million dead and other ridiculous numbers.

What they are suggesting is a doubling of the number dead in less than four months

[maddog55]

IHME projects 562,000 COVID-19 deaths in U.S. by April 1

APRIL FOOLS !!!!!

[Alberta's Child]

I challenge anyone to post a definition of a “COVID-19 death” that meets any objective medical/scientific standard.

[rigelkentaurus]

That’s it? When motorcycle wrecks = COVID-19; fall off a ladder = COVID-19; gunshot = COVID-19, pneumonia = COVID-19; heart disease = COVID-19, etc, etc, etc?

[BipolarBob]

parachute failed to open = definitely Covid-19.

[glennaro]

But what about the nine-long-months-and-counting forced masking, compelled distancing, mandated isolation, purposeful destruction of businesses? These things -- these cruel, soul-crushing, economy-destroying commands of politicians, unelected bureaucrats and, of course, "the experts" -- they were to stop this ... they were supposed to "save" us and were worth the terrible cost of the loss of freedom.

The response?: Well, we'll just keep doing more of the same ... keep doing it over and over and over until ... well, we don't know "until" .... or even "if" for that matter.

[Vendome]

Zactly

[9422WMR]

You forgot car wreck death. = COVID!

[OttawaFreeper]

Forgive me, but weren’t they predicting those kind of numbers for the end of last summer minimum at the start of the media hype? That’s how I read in between the lines regarding something like this.

[rktman]

300+ million Americans NOT sick or deceased from CV-19. This ain’t “The Stand” folks. Although some of “them” are probably wishing it was.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We all did of Covid now. Nothing else.

[cuban leaf]

Well, that’s better than the two million they originally projected.

BTW, is this “of” or “with” cv19?

[elpadre]

And what did their models predict last January/February??

[elpadre]

Total deaths for all causes in 2020 will approximate total deaths from all causes in previous years.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201126223119/https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/11/a-closer-look-at-u-s-deaths-due-to-covid-19