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U.S. ‘Excess Deaths’ During Pandemic Top 1 Million

CDC records also show an increased number of deaths from heart disease, hypertension, and other ailments across two years of the pandemic.

By Alan Goforth | February 18, 2022 at 09:09 AM
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The United States now has recorded more than 1 million “excess deaths” since the start of the pandemic.

“We’ve never seen anything like it,” Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Center for Health Statistics, told the Washington Post.

Although the vast majority of the excess deaths are from the virus, CDC mortality records also expose increased numbers of deaths from heart disease, hypertension, dementia, and other ailments across two years of the pandemic. In 2019, before the pandemic, the CDC recorded 2.8 million deaths. But in 2020 and 2021, as the virus spread through the population, the country recorded roughly a half-million deaths each year in excess of the norm.

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