Day 38: Overall Mortality

So the number of people who have died from Covid keeps growing, but the total number of deaths in 2020 is on track to be no different or actually lower than in years past. Isn't that odd?

Despite the virus, US deaths this year are literally no worse than they've been for the last 10, and may even be on track to go DOWN.

2010: 2.5M
2011: 2.5M
2012: 2.5M
2013 :2.6M
2014: 2.6M
2015: 2.7M
2016: 2.7M
2017: 2.8M
2018: 2.8M
2019: 2.9M
2020: 2.5M (as of Nov.)

— Jon Miller (@MillerStream) December 13, 2020

Source: National Center for Health Statistics, CDC

• NVSS: Mortality experience in 2010
• NVSS: Mortality experience in 2011
• NVSS: Mortality experience in 2012
• NVSS: Mortality experience in 2013
• NVSS: Mortality experience in 2014
• NCHS Data Brief: Mortality in the United States, 2015
• NCHS Data Brief: Mortality in the United States, 2016
• NVSS: Mortality experience in 2017
• NCHS Data Brief: Mortality in the United States, 2018
• VSRR - State and National Provisional Counts for Live Births, Deaths, and Infant Deaths (2019)
• National Center for Health Statistics, Daily Updates of Totals by Week and State, Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)