jack sequim wa wrote:
Honest question?
Why if, every year the U.S. tracks deaths then why if 500,000 died of covid is there only 57,000 more deaths in 2020 than in 2019?
Why ?
Jack, you need to be more selective in your reading.. truth shall make your mind clear..
The death count was not complete and may still be but this is based on figures 2 week before the 2020 year end..
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/08/fact-check-u-s-more-deaths-2020-than-2019-covid-19/4141839001/In 2019, there was NO Covid-19: The number of USA deaths: 2,854,838. With 2 weeks left in 2020, and a supposedly catastrophic virus pandemic raging the past 10 months, the number of USA deaths stands at: 2,835,533."
The screenshot has two separate listings of "
www.cdc.gov..." as supposed citations for the numbers in the claim. However, neither link is fully visible.
USA TODAY reached out to the Facebook user for comment but has not heard back.
However, the post's claim about the number of deaths in 2020 is not accurate.
The post was shared on Dec. 26, claiming that with two weeks left in 2020, there were only 2,835,533 deaths recorded in the U.S., despite "a supposedly catastrophic virus pandemic raging the past 10 months."
The Facebook post cited an incomplete link to the CDC's website as its source for the number of deaths in 2020. However, the CDC has yet to release its final mortality report for 2020.
According to the latest update from the CDC's provisional death counts, there were at least 3.2 million U.S. deaths in 2020. These numbers will continue to change before they become final, as new or updated death certificate data is added when it is available.
Additionally, in October the CDC released a report saying there had been an estimated 299,028 excess deaths in 2020 from late January through Oct. 3 — with 66% of those attributed to the coronavirus.
Excess deaths are defined as "the difference between the observed numbers of deaths in specific time periods and expected numbers of deaths in the same time periods."
In a fact check of a similar claim, the CDC told Politifact that the 2020 death numbers are "without a question NOT on par with previous years," and claims that state otherwise are misrepresenting the data.