Lauren Rossen, a data scientist with CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, told PolitiFact that the numbers of deaths in 2020 are "without a question NOT on par with previous years" and that claims that the numbers are equivalent are based on misinterpretations and misuse of the available data. "Overall, an estimated 299,028 excess deaths occurred from late January through October 3, 2020, with 198,081 (66%) excess deaths attributed to COVID-19," the agency reported. Excess deaths are defined in the report as the number of persons who have died from all causes, in excess of the expected number of deaths for a given place and time. Meanwhile, in another report, the CDC estimated that COVID-19 has caused almost 200,000 excess deaths in the U.S. The provisional tally for the year, as of Dec. What’s more, these numbers are continuously updated due to reporting lags, which the CDC says can range from one week to eight weeks or more, depending on the jurisdiction and cause of death. The weekly provisional deaths table doesn’t begin until the week ending Feb. Not only does the figure not account for the final six weeks of the year, it doesn’t represent the first few weeks, either. 16, 2020, reflects CDC data, but it’s not a complete depiction of how many Americans died in 2020. The chart’s 2,487,350 figure leading up to the week of Nov. While the final numbers for 2019 have not been released, the CDC’s provisional count for the year - 2,855,000 - comes close to the chart’s 2,900,689 figure, though it’s not clear how they reached the number. The health agency reported 2,712,630 deaths in the U.S. The numbers listed from 2015 through 2018 are legitimate and come from the CDC.
(Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. Lastly, it ignores that COVID-19 has killed over 290,000 Americans to-date, the highest virus death toll in the world. The 2020 statistics cited are not the final figures, and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that hundreds of thousands of excess American deaths are attributed to the virus this year. But the comparison is flawed for a few reasons.
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