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A couple months ago, they were claiming 200,000 reported Covid deaths and 300,000 total excess deaths compared to last year. The reported Covid deaths skew very old, obviously. But remember the Johns Hopkins student newsletter article which pointed out that the age distribution of the excess deaths is even, the same as past years, and does not match up with the age distribution of the reported Covid deaths? This suggests that most people dying of Covid were going to die in 2020 anyway and that the excess deaths were caused by our reaction to Covid (deferred diagnosis and treatment, for one) rather than by Covid itself.