2 COVID Vaccines Approved, End to Pandemic in Sight??

[rachel83az]

Here's a CDC page about excess death rates in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm

Here's another one from a site that does nothing but collect stats. Worldwide data available: https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid

And another statistics-based site: https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/20/cdc-...-covid-19/

An article from Johns Hopkins explaining stats; this one is about 3 months old so the numbers are going to be different now. But it does a good job of explaining what the statistics mean and also why concern is warranted: https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/09/01/comorbidi...eaths-cdc/

This one lets you do a state-by-state comparison of 2020 vs. the average from 2014-2019: https://healthcostinstitute.org/hcci-res...c-by-state Interestingly, there was a HUGE dip for the US as a whole in March as people (mostly) stayed home and didn't get into car accidents or otherwise engage in potentially risky behaviors. Some states, like California, have mostly managed to keep this year below average. Others, like Georgia and Maryland, have been pretty consistently above-average.