Booney wrote:https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2872MV?__twitter_impression=true
A meme claiming to demonstrate that US death rates have not changed in 2020 by comparing recent data with previous years is misleading.
The image is titled “US deaths per year” and features figures said to be the number of annual deaths since 2015 (here). These are: 2015 (2,712,630), 2016 (2,744,248), 2017 (2,813,503), 2018 (2,839,205), 2019 (2,900,689). For 2020, the image says it has taken data up to Nov. 16 and lists 2,487,350 total deaths. It then makes a whole-year projection of 2,818,527.
This table of numbers has since been shared across social media claiming to be proof that the US death tally in 2020 is on par with other years – even with the emergence of COVID-19. But this is not an accurate assumption as it uses a misguided understanding of available data. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has, in fact, estimated hundreds of thousands of excess deaths in 2020 (here).
Firstly, the numbers listed from 2015 through 2018 are official, having been released by the CDC ( here , here , here , here ). However, the final numbers for 2019 have not yet been released, and it is unclear where the image creator took the 2,900,689 figure from. This is the same for the 2020 projection.
Oh Factcheck, who fact checks the factcheckers? Who funds the factcheckers, not the same people that are heavily invested in Big Pharma?
Why does fact check only appear on anything from the right and nothing from the left? That couldnt be right could it?
Here's a tip, anything that is fact checked you can take it to the bank that its 100% true.