I’ve conducted research on the total number of deaths in the United States each year from 2000 to the preliminary data available for 2023, sourced from the CDC. While I acknowledge that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is real and highly contagious, I believe the numbers attributing deaths directly to COVID-19 as the underlying cause have been significantly overstated.

I have personal anecdotes where individuals were reported to have died from COVID-19, yet this was not the case.

Looking at historical trends, from 2000 to 2010, the average number of deaths from all causes in the U.S. was approximately 2,439,934 per year, a figure consistent for many years prior. However, in 2015, this number surged to 2,712,630, an increase of 272,696 from the previous year. This trend of increasing deaths continued; in 2016, there were 2,744,248 deaths, an additional 31,618 from 2015. This rise cannot be solely attributed to population growth, as the U.S. population growth rate has been declining.

Let’s examine the years impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic:

In 2019, there were 2,854,838 deaths, an increase of 15,633 from 2018.

In 2020, the number of deaths jumped to 3,383,729, an increase of 528,891 from 2019. Of these, 350,831 were listed with COVID-19 as the underlying cause. However, considering the previous yearly increases, the additional deaths in 2020 are not solely attributable to the virus.

In 2021, deaths rose to 3,464,231, an increase of 80,502 from 2020, with 416,893 attributed to COVID-19. This raises questions about the effectiveness of the vaccines, which were touted as solutions but appear not to have significantly altered the death rate trajectory as expected.

By 2022, about 3,273,705 deaths were recorded, yet there was a shift; fewer deaths were being directly attributed to COVID-19.

This data prompts several questions:

Why did the total number of deaths increase significantly year after year before the onset of the COVID-19 crisis?

If vaccines were as effective as claimed, why did death rates not decrease but rather continue to exceed the pre-COVID averages by over a million?

Will the death rates continue to exceed the new average of around 3,400,000, and if so, why? Why aren’t they returning to the levels seen from 2000 to 2010?

These trends suggest there might have been misrepresentations regarding the impact of COVID-19 on mortality. The absence of significant drops in other major causes of death like heart attacks, influenza, or pneumonia during the peak of the reported COVID-19 deaths further complicates the narrative.

The preliminary data for 2023 shows over 3 million deaths, yet there’s a noticeable shift away from attributing these increases directly to COVID-19. This leads us to question why, if vaccines and boosters were effective, the death toll remains high.

In conclusion, these inconsistencies and trends suggest a need for a more critical examination of how health crises are reported, managed, and understood by the public.