1/ The CDC put out more data on "select causes" of death!

Up until know we had only #COVID19, flu & pneumonia for 2020.

A BIG revelation from this data... more strong proof that #COVID19 was here BEFORE January.

Let's begin with ALL deaths by week and year:

2/ In the chart in the first tweet we see ALL CAUSES of deaths for each week from 2014-20 for weeks 1 - 21

I highlighted the burst of deaths presumably for #COVID19

I also highlighted Jan 2018 for a very high influenza season. CDC gives us these "select" causes to choose from

3/ So if we narrow the chart JUST down to COVID-19 we see this. They also give two different breakdowns of COVID-19 "underlying cause" and "multiple cause of death"

45,370 Multiple
42,670 Underlying

So, there's a 3,300 difference. Still LOTS of problems interpreting this

4/ Keep in mind the human body is a complex mechanism and when a complex mechanism dies things get very tough to interpret.

Here's Alzheimer Disease. you can see a bump here in 2020 coinciding with #COVID19 but you can ALSO see an even bigger bump in 2018 deaths during its peak

5/ Keep in mind again... the VAST majority of deaths happen to the elderly so we expect to see those suffering and dying from existing causes to accelerate already. Remember our Simpsons graphics? #COVID19 in particular attacks the elderly.

6/ Diabetes, heart disease the list goes on. It boils down to this: 1) The apocalypse crowd is looking for proof that #COVID19 is the harbinger of all doom. 2) The skeptics suspect that #COVID19 is accelerating a lot of existing deaths.

We STILL don't know.

7/ AND because seasonal winters are brutal but brutal in different months sometimes... we need to look at cumulative deaths starting in Sept (week 39) going on through April (week 17).

Low and behold the 2017-18 season has a few thousand HIGHER deaths than 2019-20

8/ The OTHER slice of select deaths we need: non-natural deaths. We know that accidents from automobiles were lower for example because of the shutdown... did #COVID19 deaths just fill those "divots" ?

9/ But here's the BIG takeaway. One select cause of death they note is: "Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)"

Look at Nov/Dec 2019 - this is MORE evidence that #COVID was with us BEFORE January.

More later!

Sources!
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-State-and-Select-Causes/3yf8-kanr

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-State-and-Select-Causes/muzy-jte6

But here... I put it together in one XLS file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mf69uxMXi1a16lJzUYCBmvVRmphsyzsE/view?usp=sharing