📍We have now hit 20 MILLION EXCESS DEATHS during the pandemic—quite chilling. It’s ~4x the confirmed #COVID19 deaths alone. ➡️EXCESS is far more reliable because it’s TOTAL minus EXPECTED based on pre-pandemic rate. Not testing dependent! #CovidIsNotOver https://t.co/6yg83BNvji pic.twitter.com/VsYIyzirnn
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 29, 2022
Excess mortality is probably the best measure of COVID’s brutality and how well countries did responding to it, and it tells a very different story than more conventional measures. To begin with, the large country with the most brutal pandemic was Russia. https://t.co/fntTS7gwKO
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) March 26, 2022
Pretty stunning graphic from @axios about the distribution of excess deaths (all causes) during Covid. pic.twitter.com/wjAXqKoRMT
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) March 25, 2022
Why has US pop growth fallen off a cliff?
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) March 24, 2022
If you compare pop growth in 2019 and 2021, excess deaths account for 51% of the change.
But if you compare 2016 and 2021, the collapse immigration accounts for even more of the decline in population growth than excess deaths. Wild.
When it's all said and done, the actual U.S. death toll will likely be calculated around 1.5 million or double the toll from the Spanish Flu.
— Jud Lounsbury (@JudLounsbury) March 25, 2022
Quite the dubious fete when you consider we had exponentially more weapons to fight this virus than they had.https://t.co/HB1yzw5wUZ
I worry about run on hospitals, but more worried about excessive death up to year after. Old but.. pic.twitter.com/9CWBH2sYDD
— H. Bolds (@BoldsHeidi) March 28, 2022
Sad! 