[Sooth2222]

CDC:("NOTES: Rates are plotted on a logarithmic scale.")

CDC: Mortality in the United States, 2020

[Sequoyah101]

Many times people only go out of their way to plot things on a logarithmic scale to hide something or make something insignificant look different.

Notwithstanding that there are some statistical reasons to do so but in this case?

If you plot the data on a linear scale I think you see that old people normally die and younger people don’t.

If you look at the change of death rate something else shows up. I’ll leave it to you to make your own conclusions on that:

% change from 2019 to 2020

85+ 14.98%
75+ 15.99%
65+ 17.44%
55+ 17.62%
45+ 20.67%
35+ 24.90%
25+ 23.84%
15+ 20.80%
5+ 2.24%
1+ -2.58%

I wonder what the numbers will show for 2021 if they don’t manipulate them?

[Steve_Seattle]

According to your chart, deaths in 2020, pre-Covid-vaccine, increased an average of 15% in the five oldest age groups, about 20% in the next three groups, and hardly at all in the two youngest groups. So overall death rates in the Year of Covid increased about 15-17%.

This CEO claims an increase of more than TWICE that rate compared to pre-Covid levels in the 3rd and 4th quarters of 2021 despite widespread vaccination and despite an extra year to work on therapeutics. Something is wrong.

[Texas Fossil]

2020 was before Covid was very far along. This is now 2022.