*Covid Deaths Now 300,000; CDC Reclassified 75K Added Deaths From Pandemic, USA Today

[appalachiablue]

'CDC reclassified 75k deaths due to COVID, it's now 300k. And Trump helped some insider trading.' Daily Kos, 10/15/20.

Trump eventually will be directly responsible for a quarter-million deaths from COVID.

“We’re actually experiencing more death than we thought we were.”

The coronavirus pandemic may have caused tens of thousands of more deaths in the spring and summer than previously thought, a new study says.

- USA Today. "Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond found nearly 75,000 more people may have died from the pandemic than what was recorded in March to July, according to the report published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA.

By examining death certificates, the study found more than 150,000 deaths were officially attributed to COVID-19 during that period. But researchers determined that nearly 75,000 additional deaths were indirectly caused by the pandemic, bringing the total number of deaths for those four months to more than 225,000." www.usatoday.com/...

USA Today article, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/10/12/us-covid-deaths-75-k-more-americans-died-than-previously-recorded-excess-deaths/5935813002/

More,
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/14/1986558/-CDC-reclassified-75k-deaths-due-to-COVID-it-s-now-300k-And-Trump-helped-some-insider-trading

[intrepidity]

1. That number seems about right

That's about how many more deaths this year vs prior years, overall.

[marie999]

2. And I don't know if there is any way to tell how many people died from a heart attack

but wouldn't have if they didn't have Covid.