Originally Posted by
Buck Rogers
So Ted....currently the excess mortality rate in the USA is -4% overall and 0% for 18 to 80 yo and -11% for 80 +... Is the negative excess mortality rate because the weak were "culled" a few months early....and virtually very few of the 18-80 have perished? IOW...they were gonna die anyway very shortly anyway?
Sorry if this is stated too "insensitively" for some. Seriously.
IOW....doesn't it kinda support my "general facts" about death rates and age a coupla post above? Or am I missing something?
I guess I'm honestly not following you here. Are you saying that at this moment, death rates for 80+ are lower than they usually are in this particular week? It's plausible that many of those who would otherwise have died this week in previous years were "taken out" earlier in this year at rates exceeding previous years. If one is trying to (with data) show that the effects of covid are no different than the flu, I'm not seeing it. And these numbers are also AFTER we mostly shut down society and implemented draconian measures to avoid transmission and (later in the year) protect vulnerable populations. I don't have all the answers, but anyone who says covid=flu has (imho) fewer good answers than I do.
From the linked website:
"Besides visualizing excess mortality as a percentage difference, we can also look at the raw death counts as shown here in this chart. The raw death counts help give us a rough sense of scale: for example, the US suffered some 260,000 more deaths than the five-year average between 1 March and 16 August, compared to
169,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths during that period."