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2020 had the highest number of above-normal deaths in recorded American history

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It’s official:

A surge in deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic created the largest gap between the actual and expected death rate in 2020 — what epidemiologists call “excess deaths,” or deaths above normal.

Aside from fatalities directly attributed to Covid-19, some excess deaths last year were most likely undercounts of the virus or misdiagnoses, or indirectly related to the pandemic otherwise. Preliminary federal data show that overdose deaths have also surged during the pandemic.

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Combined with deaths in the first few months of this year, Covid-19 has now claimed more than half a million lives in the United States. The total number of Covid-19 deaths so far is on track to surpass the toll of the 1918 pandemic, which killed an estimated 675,000 nationwide.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 10 percent of the deaths last year can be directly attributed to Covid-19, which overtook other leading causes of death — like chronic lower respiratory diseases and unintentional injuries, such as car accidents and overdose deaths — to become the third biggest killer, after heart disease and cancer.

In an ideal world, for the next pandemic we would be preparing to emulate the countries that actually crushed the virus — and thereby creating, of course, a much greater increase in actual freedom than the libertarian policies of many American states that let the virus run rampant. But much more likely we’ll not only ignore Vietnam and Korea and Australia but follow the bizarre media narrative, contrary to any possible metric, that Ron DeSantis handled the pandemic better than Kate Brown.

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