[elpadre]

Historically, hospitals have considerably more patients during flu season.

Also, read this article. It appears the total of deaths from ALL causes this year (including COVID) is not much different from total deaths from ALL causes in previous years

https://web.archive.org/web/20201126223119/https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/11/a-closer-look-at-u-s-deaths-due-to-covid-19

[goodnesswins]

These are Oregon total death stats for past several years, ....THIS tells the TRUTH...each State likely has similar stats...a “friend” on MEWE posted this...

From the Oregon website, the number of total DEATHS since 2015. Here you go:
2015- 35,709
2016- 35,799
2017- 36,640
2018- 36,191
2019- 37,397
And here you go...YEAR TO DATE
(December 1) 2020........32,330!

And for this we are allowing a tyrannical Governor to destroy our state??? I for one, am not going to be quiet. You better research the “plan” and make some NOISE!!!
Go ahead and fact check here:point_down::point_down::point_down:
https://www.oregon.gov/oha/ph/birthdeathcertificates/vitalstatistics

[Hepsabeth]

It appears the total of deaths from ALL causes this year (including COVID) is not much different from total deaths from ALL causes in previous years

If you want to see what the CDC website actually says about that, the information is at this link. Scroll down to the graph that says, "Weekly number of deaths (from all causes)". It goes back to January 2017, so it includes the excess deaths from the 2017-2018 flu season.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm