[thesloppy]

Originally Posted by HerRealName

I think this came from a reddit post. The current data is here:

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


And the historical info here:

https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html

Could be a categorization issue but that's how it was pulled.

In that first link Pneumonia deaths are remarkably consistent for the first seven weeks, until they start doubling and tripling for 6-7 weeks...I have no idea how remarkable that is, cuz I didn't want to get the degree that would be necessary to squeeze something out of that second site.

I was able to find a few places that referenced an average of 50,000 pneumonia deaths per year in the US, in which case a few weeks of over 10,000 certainly seems significant....there's more than 50,000 pneumonia deaths on that first chart just between 4/4 and 5/9, and a total of 91,000 deaths from 2/1 to 5/23.