{"id":5100,"date":"2020-06-20T18:39:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T23:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=5100"},"modified":"2020-06-20T18:47:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T23:47:28","slug":"excess-deaths-in-the-beginning-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/20\/excess-deaths-in-the-beginning-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Excess Deaths in the beginning of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CDC has a page hidden relatively deeply on their website<\/a> that plots “excess” deaths (deaths over the expected average) for each week. All those red plus marks are weeks with detected “excess” deaths.
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\nMost of the excess deaths are attributed to Covid-19, but there have also been some excess deaths attributed to other issues besides Covid-19. For example, more people than average are dying attributed to Alzheimer’s and Dementia:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Heart diseases:
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And Diabetes:
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This may be because people are avoiding hospitals and dying at home from problems that could have been survivable if they had gone to a hospital, or it could be due to issues with undetected infections.<\/p>\n

Similar trends are occurring worldwide<\/a>. If you are interested in knowing the “excess deaths” for your particular US state, the Washington Post has a nice interactive graph here<\/a>.
\nFlorida numbers look like this:
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