The Aftermath Of COVID: Four Years Later

 The years of COVID deaths are finally becoming a memory, but many years remain before we will fully understand what happened.

"The fact that COVID was a deadly and unique threat should not fade away, but in the face of ongoing rhetoric to the contrary, it can be forgotten. Serious commentators continue to claim that COVID was just another flu. For example, on June 20, Tucker Carlson hosted Neil Oliver, who has always come across as an extraordinarily perceptive commentator, and during the conversation, Oliver pointed out that"the flu disappeared when COVID came along," and Carlson noted that he "didn't know anyone who ever got COVID. In subsequent interviews, Carlson has repeated that observation.

For the years 2017, 2018, and 2019, annual pneumonia deaths were consistently around 175,000 per year in the U.S. Zero COVID deaths were reported in those years.

If you're dead, you're dead. Using this logic, it is possible to compare the death rates since COVID came along to the death rates prior to COVID. To do this, I took CDC data on deaths from all causes for the years 2013 through 2019, then adjusting for population growth, plotted them as repeating 12-month cycles on a timeline that begins in January 2020 and runs through April 2024.

Based on these extrapolations, the grey line therefore predicts how many people would have died each week over the past four years if COVID hadn't come along.

During the four and a half years we've lived through since COVID came along, 12.4 million Americans have died.

What these numbers tell us is that since COVID came along, 1.9 million people died in excess of what would have been expected based on death rates in the preceding seven years. 

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