When analyzing the lethality of the COVID-19 virus in the United States, an interesting point should be noted. On March 24, 2020, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed how COVID-19 deaths would be counted. After this date, any individual that died with COVID-19 or any individual suspected (but not confirmed) to have had COVID-19 was listed as dying from COVID. Why did the CDC make this change? No reason was given, and as usual, the media didn’t ask any questions. This change greatly impacts any honest 2020 COVID-19 death data analysis. Changing how deaths were counted in this unprecedented way substantially inflated the statistical lethality of the virus.
How statistically deadly would influenza or cancer be if we altered the way deaths were counted in such a way as the CDC counted COVID 19?
The CDC listed the following primary causes of death in the USA. Here is a data comparison.
2017
Heart disease: 647,457
Cancer: 599,108 602,350
Accidents: 169,936
Chronic lower resp. diseases: 160,201
Stroke: 146,383
Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404
Diabetes: 83,564
Influenza and pneumonia: 55,672
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,633
2020
Heart disease: 696,962 +7%
Cancer: 602,350 +0.6%
Accidents: 200,955 +15%
Chron. lower resp. diseases: 152,657 -4.5%
Stroke: 160,264 +8.5%
Alzheimer’s disease: 134,242 +9%
Diabetes: 102,188 +18%
Influenza and pneumonia: 53,544 -4.5%
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 52,547 +3.5%
The CDC listed 2020 COVID-19 deaths at 350,831. This number was the total AFTER the March 24, 2020, accounting change. Since COVID-19 emerged in late 2019 there are no previous annual lethality numbers for comparison. It’s notable that even with the suspicious accounting change, the CDC could only total 350,831 deaths. Compared to heart disease and cancer, this number is substantially lower. Yet, the authorities have never mandated unevidenced measures or national lockdowns to curb these deaths.
Interestingly, the CDC did not include drug overdose as a major cause of death in 2020, despite the fact that it increased by 29.4%.
According to the CDC there were 72,151 overdose deaths in 2019 and 93,331 in 2020.
Combined, that is 165,482 drug overdoses!
The CDC also failed to list the number of suicides for 2020 as a primary cause of death. That number was 45,979.
While, all deaths are tragic and while COVID was the primary cause of death for many people, the decisions that were made for ALL United States citizens based upon these questionable magnified statistics is extremely problematic. Without the CDC’s inflated 2020 Covid-19 death data, would all of the shutdowns, masking requirements and forced health mandates via executive orders have been justified?
