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JoeData

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    Comment #26987283

    > "excess deaths (including COVID deaths) exceeded COVID deaths" Yes, that's what I meant. I didn't think it was ambiguous. Lots of people think that COVID deaths were exaggerated.…

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    Comment #26983790

    Short answer: In the U.S., 12 standard deviations. In the U.S., deaths were 16%-17% higher than expected. The death rate was 17.8% higher than in 2019. Excess deaths were higher in…

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    Comment #26983181

    The UK government publishes other ways to measure COVID deaths. the "positive test result with 28 days of death" results in the lowest count: Deaths in England and Wales in 2020 80…

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    Comment #26982935

    Here is some more data. Deaths from all causes has declined rapidly in the U.S. since January. The red dotted line is my best attempt to correct for reporting lag: https://i.imgur.…

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    Comment #26636813

    Warehouses usually have rigid, level floors.

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    Comment #25313281

    The CDC haven't released any national statistics on suicide, etc. But there is a file that contains "All Cause" mortality and "Natural Cause" mortality, so I subtracted the two and…

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    Comment #25312917

    The death data that the CDC has received and processed by yesterday, December 4, have a total of 2,893,571 deaths for weeks 1 through 48 (ending November 28). This number is incomp…

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    Comment #25312871

    I made this table: https://imgur.com/PZqKWk2 It shows the point melolife made, that the percent excess (excess deaths as percent of expected) can be high, but the expected number i…

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    Comment #25312675

    The CDC has an "expected death" curve which reflects the time trend (which thus includes population growth and aging) and seasonality of death. U.S. deaths this year are well above…