@Reason10 says [quote] Birx was an expert. She was part of the Trump team, which was more competent than the idiots we have now.
So her link is more credible than whatever left wing hack site you want to vomit on this thread.[/quote]
Funny thing: my data comes from YOUR COUNTY and YOUR STATE, and every county and state. My data is counting six years of actual death certificates and the causes listed on them, as published by every county and state in the union. And my data shows NO EVIDENCE of over-counting or mis-classification of Covid deaths. As you would plainly see if you took an actual look at it.
[sep][sep][sep]
Here in the table are US death numbers for the top ten causes of death for six years ending in 2020. Notice how there are 20% more deaths in 2020 than the average of the previous five years? Doing the math, that's 500,000 excess deaths in 2020.
Notice how, in 2020, 345,000 of those 500,000 excess deaths are classified as Covid? Notice how almost all causes of death rose in 2020, including cancer & heart disease?
If there's any validity to the claim that lots of deaths have been mis-classified as Covid, why did almost all causes of death increase in 2020? Wouldn't mis-classification produce a reduction in those other causes? The evidence says mis-classification is a red herring.
@ElwoodBlues Your data are a very strong indication that the number of covid deaths has been [b]undercounted,[/b] not overcounted. This is typical of pandemics and epidemics. It happened with the swine flu in 2009 as well (to a lesser extent). Evaluation of excess deaths from that epidemic after the fact resulted in officially increasing the number of US deaths due to the swine flu.
