Excess mortality during pandemic tops 14 million
May 24, 2022…Control (www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/03/united-states-deaths-spiked-as-covid-19-continued.html). The CDC reported that mortality increased 19% between 2019 and 2020 – from 2,854,838 deaths to 3,390,029 deaths. This represented the largest annual increase in mortality in over 100 years. In 2020, COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death (after heart disease and cancer). In 2021, almost 75% of U.S. counties recorded more deaths than birt…