[2aProtectsTheRest]

I had to hunt for the info myself. I agree it isn’t very easily accessible:

Number of deaths in the US in 2018: 2,839,205 (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db355.htm)
Number of deaths in the US in 2019: 2,854,838 (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db395.htm)
Number of deaths in the US in 2020: 3,378,126 (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm - Preliminary but still rising)

You’ll notice that from 2018 to 2019, there was a 0.5% increase in total deaths in the United States. In 2020, there was an 18.3% increase over 2019. That’s unheard of outside of incredibly extreme situations. Like World War II.

[frogjerk]

What's interesting in the 2020 table is that is states "All deaths involving COVID" not "due to COVID" and the subscript [1] Deaths with confirmed or presumed COVID-19, coded to ICD–10 code U07.1.

[frogjerk]

These are COVID related numbers. I just want the raw, I don’t care what they died of numbers. Where are those numbers?

[babble-on]

Adding to which, because of lockdowns and distancing, deaths from other causes (flu for one) declined in 2020-21 flu season.

[alternatives?]

But a key uncertainty is whether the 2021 deaths will decline relative to 2019 with some of the 2020 increase just caused by early deaths that would normally have occurred in 2021.