Originally posted by dadudemonInsane
An analysis of US deaths, for any cause, by all ages, was finally completed by JHU. Similar to the UK findings, COVID-19 deaths have 0 affect on the overall death data.JHU deleted their article because it exploded and people posted it everywhere.
But not before it got archived. 🙂 People got it archived and we can see the overview of the research:
The article is a good read. Turns out that Artol's comments back in April were right: these elderly would have died within the year, anyway.
And, there is a "sudden decline in deaths" in multiple categories during the pandemic but a massive increase in respiratory related deaths. Indicating, quite clearly, that we changed how we classified causes of deaths on paper but the actual causes of death are due to the same problems as before (the comorbidities that the average COVID-19 patient has are the reasons they die because almost no one dies from SARS-CoV-2 who contracts the virus).
However, this does not explain the loss of life from depression, violence, drug use, suicide, stress, immuno-suppression, etc. But as some European countries discovered, the lack of "activity" reduced deaths in some areas (car accidents, for example) so the increase in deaths in one area may be offset in another leaving the overall deaths pretty much unchanged.