COVID Death Toll Debate
The cluster focuses on debates over COVID-19 death counts in the US and globally, including comparisons to normal yearly deaths, other diseases like TB or flu, excess mortality projections, and arguments on whether the numbers justify concern or restrictions.
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Covid has a total of 1 million kills in two years (In the US). Excessive deaths puts that even higher.
Isn't the global covid death count over 6 million now? Gonna take a lot of stress to be worse than that.
In case people are skipping the article. preliminary numbers suggest that the United States is on track to see more than 3.2 million deaths this year, or at least 400,000 more than in 2019.
We wouldn't? That seemes like a bold statement.To put your numbers in perspective, in a population of 330mio with life expectancy 70-75y (USA numbers), every year around 4mio people die for some reason or another. Not saying covid is not a problem, but these numbers don't really support the claim.
120,000+ infections and 1000+ deaths per day are negligible?
Half a million people have died from Covid [0] already and it's only July. Seems like it is in the same league as TB or malaria.[0] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths#what-is-the-total-nu...
809300 deaths out of 51574787 cases is 1.5%. that's nothing if you don't care about the people that died, or the many that suffered and lived.
1 in 3 people know someone who died on any day of any year. Number of deaths of Covid is not that high.
Case in point: Covid killed 6M people (0.0008% of world's population). 200 years ago, it would have been much much higher.
Probably has something to do with the 600k+ dead Americans.