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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4836654" data-attributes="member: 66082">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://usafacts.org/articles/preliminary-us-death-statistics-more-deaths-in-2020-than-2019-coronavirus-age-flu/[/URL]So far, more than 350,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. According to preliminary weekly data from the <a href="https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-State-and-Select-Causes/muzy-jte6" target="_blank">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)</a> (as of January 6, 2021), 3,187,086 people died from all causes between January 1 and December 26, 2020. While this data is preliminary and is incomplete for at least the last eight weeks of reported data, it provides for useful context.According to the same estimates, 2,852,609 people died in 2019, meaning at least 334,000 more people have died so far in 2020 than 2019, despite missing or incomplete data for October through December. Using the <a href="https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/technical-documentation/research/evaluation-estimates.html" target="_blank">recent estimate of the 2020 population from the Census Bureau</a>, the death rate so far in 2020 would be 9.7 deaths per 1,000, the highest death rate since 1949. However, the recent population estimate does not incorporate the results of the 2020 Census, which should improve the accuracy of the estimate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 4836654, member: 66082"] [B][URL unfurl="true"]https://usafacts.org/articles/preliminary-us-death-statistics-more-deaths-in-2020-than-2019-coronavirus-age-flu/[/URL][/B] [I]So far, more than 350,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. According to preliminary weekly data from the [URL='https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-State-and-Select-Causes/muzy-jte6']Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)[/URL] (as of January 6, 2021), 3,187,086 people died from all causes between January 1 and December 26, 2020. While this data is preliminary and is incomplete for at least the last eight weeks of reported data, it provides for useful context. According to the same estimates, 2,852,609 people died in 2019, meaning at least 334,000 more people have died so far in 2020 than 2019, despite missing or incomplete data for October through December. Using the [URL='https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/technical-documentation/research/evaluation-estimates.html']recent estimate of the 2020 population from the Census Bureau[/URL], the death rate so far in 2020 would be 9.7 deaths per 1,000, the highest death rate since 1949. However, the recent population estimate does not incorporate the results of the 2020 Census, which should improve the accuracy of the estimate.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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