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haxxiy on 30 October 2020
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Excess deaths might not be an exact metric since we have more people dying from stroke and cardiac arrest, and deaths increase yearly on their own accord in developed countries as their populations age. 2015 had 80,000 less deaths, and 2019 had 62,000 deaths above the 2015-2019 average, for instance.

So the US would have some 90,000 "excess" deaths above the 2015-2019 average all along in normal circumstances.

IcaroRibeiro said:

With over 500 deaths in a day on France are people still pretending second wave is not dangerous and everything must stay open because... well reasons?  

If I'm not mistaken, the timeframe from infection to death is about 5 weeks, so this number will just go up this November, poor Europe

The time of illness onset to death is about 10 days on average. It might be slightly over 2 weeks counting incubation.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928e1.htm

Also that France number is because they randomly account for non-hospital deaths all at once occasionaly. That's why they had peaks of over 2,000 daily deaths in the first wave. Situation's bad over there but not that bad.

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