11-20-2020, 02:51 PM
Lyman Stone (a demographer) does a weekly analysis of excess deaths. It's a useful, if morbid, read:
https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/...95649?s=20
His estimate is that as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are somewhere between 300-400,000 more deaths than would have been expected, "with 340-370k being the best estimate."
The 1918 flu pandemic is estimated to have killed 675,000 in the US (to be fair, as a share of the population at the time, it is a lot more than twice the excess deaths we've seen in the US).
BC
https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/...95649?s=20
His estimate is that as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are somewhere between 300-400,000 more deaths than would have been expected, "with 340-370k being the best estimate."
The 1918 flu pandemic is estimated to have killed 675,000 in the US (to be fair, as a share of the population at the time, it is a lot more than twice the excess deaths we've seen in the US).
BC