Would total deaths be a more useful data point? CDC states that 2,839,205 Americans died in the year 2018. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
I would be curious to know how many Americans died in 2020, once the year concludes.
I would be curious to know how many Americans died in 2020, once the year concludes.
(Note that this data includes the last 3 days of 2019.)
But even with the incomplete count, we have already surpassed 2018 and 2019.
It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future, but it looks we're on track to have 3.2 million to 3.3 million deaths this year. We won't have a firm grasp on the numbers until March.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-cumulati...
There have been 2,000 - 3,000 known US Covid-19 deaths per day for the past few days. So, devastatingly, I think that number has gone up a lot since October 25.