{"id":176035,"date":"2020-09-22T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/22\/they-say-over-200000-i-think-that-it-is-over-%c2%bc-million\/"},"modified":"2020-09-22T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:20:00","slug":"they-say-over-200000-i-think-that-it-is-over-%c2%bc-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/22\/they-say-over-200000-i-think-that-it-is-over-%c2%bc-million\/","title":{"rendered":"They Say over 200,000.  I Think That It Is over \u00bc Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border-color: black; border-image: none; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/nUi1QvS.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/nUi1QvS.png\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Excess Deaths is the Gold Standard Here<\/i><\/div>\n<p>So, the official death toll from Covid-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/22\/us-coronavirus-deaths-trump-autumn\">crosses the 200,000 mark<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The reason that I think that this number is low is that I have looked at the CDC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/covid19\/excess_deaths.htm\">excess death figures<\/a>, and the range there is between 201,917 and 262,877, only the death numbers can be 6-8 weeks late, and these figures only go to the week ending September 5, and deaths have been running at about 10,000 a week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Given that we are now entering the busy season for viral spreading, more indoor activity and lowering humidity in those spaces, I think that \u00bd million dead is not outside of the realm of possibility by year&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excess Deaths is the Gold Standard Here So, the official death toll from Covid-19 crosses the 200,000 mark.&nbsp; The reason that I think that this number is low is that I have looked at the CDC&#8217;s excess death figures, and the range there is between 201,917 and 262,877, only the death numbers can be 6-8 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[572,460,494],"class_list":["post-176035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-pandemic","tag-public-health","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}