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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Did the Covid lockdowns kill 83,000 Americans?

by Robert Romano: As of March 31, 2021, more than 552,000 Americans had died of Covid, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), quite a lot, but the killing did not stop there.

An additional 83,000 Americans died in excess of average mortality on a weekly basis, comparing death rates published by CDC from 2014 through 2021, bringing excess mortality since the beginning of the pandemic to 635,000 since Jan. 2020.

In 2014, the average number of deaths per week was 50,979; in 2015 it was 51,957; in 2016, it was 52,473; in 2017 it was 53,932; in 2018, it was 54,461; and in 2019, it was 54,729. Overall, the average annual growth rate in mortality from 2014 to 2019 was about 1.2 percent.

Then, in 2020, with Covid, the average weekly death rate jumped to 64,774. Overall mortality jumped by more than 20 percent in 2020, from 2.84 million to 3.43 million, well above what it would have been simply accounting for the growing population.

Had there never been any Covid, an additional 635,000 Americans would have been alive as of March 31. But it raises an important question, why did an additional 83,000 Americans die during the pandemic on top of those attributed directly to Covid by the CDC? Was it the lockdowns?

For example, in 2019, the average weekly death rate of Alzheimer’s disease was 2,328, or 121,100 for the year. But in 2020, that number jumped to 2,566, or 136,004.

Or, heart disease killed 12,632 weekly in 2019, and 656,900 total, but in 2020, it was up to 13,307 a week and 691,983 for the year.

Or, diabetes killed 1,680 per week in 2019, and 87,407 total, but in 2020, it jumped to 1,942 a week and 101,081 for the year.

Or, cancer killed 11,501 weekly in 2019, and 598,092 total, but in 2020, it grew to 11,514 and 610,274 for the year.

Even deaths by unnatural causes jumped from 4,820 in 2019 with 250,677 dead to 5,398 in 2020 with 286,131 dead.

In other words, when you subtract out the 414,997 who were said to have perished by Covid in 2020, the total number dead from all other causes still comes to 3.01 million, or more than 6 percent above 2019’s 2.84 million dead. That is the definition of excess mortality, well above the 1.2 percent average annual growth rate of fatalities.

Potential causes include deferring medical care during the pandemic, lack of exercise from the stay at home orders, increased depression and anxiety during the lockdowns, etc. In other words, it very well could have been the lockdowns that killed the additional 83,000.

Or it could have been undetected Covid from a lack of testing, a theory being pushed by the Institutes for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), whose press release dated May 6 states, “The main potential increases in excess mortality due to deferred care and increases in drug overdose and depression are hard to quantify at this point or are of a much smaller magnitude. Given that there is insufficient evidence to estimate these contributions to excess mortality, for now we assume that total COVID-19 deaths equal excess mortality… we believe that this is likely an underestimate.”

As a result, IHME projects an additional 330,000 Americans have died from Covid on top of the current 578,000 count, bringing the total number of dead to more than 900,000.

But that number is almost certainly way too high. To get there, death from all other causes besides Covid would have had to drop by more than 4 percent in 2020, a statistical absurdity. Yes, there is excess mortality above what are being counted as official Covid deaths, but the total excess mortality reasonably reached 635,000 as of March 31, not 870,000 as IHME suggests, based on the CDC data.

And the cause is as of yet to be determined. It could be undetected Covid that killed the additional 83,000, or it might have been the public and private response to the pandemic, complete with business lockdowns and stay at home orders, all of which could have contributed to increases in all other causes of death from deferred medical care, lack of exercise and depression. If so, then there might have been some benefits to waiting out the pandemic, but for the 83,000 additional dead, this was the ultimate price.
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Robert Romano is the Vice President of Public Policy at Americans for Limited Government.
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