Putting US daily COVID deaths into perspective

[bkkguy]

Of the 15 deadliest days in American history, 10 of them have happened within the last few weeks - with COVID daily deaths overtaking Sept 11 and Pearl Harbour, and behind only two Civil War battles and a hurricane that struck in the year 1900!

(this was first published last week so "This" is two weeks ago and "Last" is three weeks ago)



Galveston Hurricane (in 1900) — 8,000
Battle of Antietam (1862) — 3,675
Battle of Gettysburg (1863) — 3,155
This Thursday - 3,067
This Wednesday - 3,054
September 11 (2001) — 2,977
Last Thursday — 2,879
Last Wednesday — 2,804
This Friday - 2,749
This Tuesday - 2,622
Last Friday — 2,607
Last Tuesday — 2,597
Today - 2,477
Last Saturday - 2,445
Pearl Harbor (1941) — 2,403


first published in a political blog as a list of the 10 deadliest days in American history (https://politicalwire.com/2020/12/09/the-deadliest-days-in-american-history/)
with updates from The Covid Tracking Project


(https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/)

[christianpfc]

In 2018, a total of 2,839,205 resident deaths were registered in the United States
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db355.htm Mortality in the United States, 2018

Dividing this number by 365 days, 7,779 people die in the United States every day on average. One would need these numbers (total death per day and not just death with Covid) for comparison, but I think the difference is negligible.

Only if you assume 2500 Covid death are in addition to 7500 death by other causes, and that over a longer period of time, you get an increase that cannot be explained by fluctuations.

And once Covid is over, will there be fewer death because the vulnerable died now?

And will we have Covid babies? Are people having more sex in lockdown and will there be more births nine months later?

In quote in OP D-Day is missing: 2,499 (Wikipedia, Normandy landings)

[latintopxxx]

would be interesting...in a adams family sort of way...to compare average deaths per months before covid and now...Im not implying that covid is not real...it certainly is...but has the death rate attributed to it coirrect.

[goji]

Even with covid, age adjusted mortality rates in England & Wales are better than 15 years ago.

In 6 months time, I imagine these rates will be better than normal, since quite a number of people who died from covid were in a poor state of health already.

I suppose the US has similar data.

[francois]

would be interesting...in a adams family sort of way...to compare average deaths per months before covid and now...Im not implying that covid is not real...it certainly is...but has the death rate attributed to it coirrect.

In Oct 2020 there were 300,000 excessive deaths in USA as compared to previous years.
220,000 people died from Covid, alone in the same time frame. Likely many of these excess deaths were due to Covid or related in some way to effects of Covid. It is real!