There were a series of strange “death waves” in the United States in 2020-2023—especially in 2020 (“the year of the virus”), and 2021 (“the year of the vaccine”).

More than a million extra people died in the death waves of 2020 and 2021, compared to prior years— that isn’t an issue of complex statistics, it’s an issue of basic math. Anyone can verify the raw numbers in the public CDC WONDER database; this section of my CVax Risk page can help. The US death waves are shown in the chart below, comparing weekly deaths in 2019 (in brown) with weekly deaths in 2020-2022 (in blue). The bright green columns mark the first week of 2021 and 2022.

See this link for the source of this data.

However, the situation was very different in different states, at different times in 2020 and 2021—deaths were extraordinarily high in some times and places, while at other times and places, deaths were normal. In this paper, I identify the peak months and states where excess deaths occurred in the US, and look at the places people died in those months and states—in hospitals, at home, and elsewhere. I hope you find the results as intriguing and thought-provoking as I did.

How unusual were the US death waves?

To fully understand the magnitude of the US mass casualties over the last few years, it’s necessary to first understand that US deaths have been quite stable for at least the last 55 years, until 2020. If there is any lingering doubt in your mind on this point, please visit this section on my CVax Risk page, showing US deaths, population and death rate from 1968-2022.

US population, deaths and death rate from 1968 thru 2022. See this link for the source of this data.

So, when I use terms like “unprecedented deaths” and “mass casualties” and “massive increase in deaths,” it’s not hyperbole—it’s an accurate description of what we just lived through in the US—most of us, with no idea it even happened.

What about COVID19?

Those who don’t know about, or don’t care about, or don’t agree with, the historic revolution happening right now to expose virology as a pseudoscience, and a primary tool of social control, will automatically attribute the death waves to COVID19, a disease allegedly caused by a virus called SARS-COV-2.

However, at least in the case of the NYC mass casualty event of Spring 2020, which I’ve written about previously here, here and here, this attribution would conflict even with the official mortality data, which shows that many excess deaths were not attributed to COVID19, but rather, a wide variety of ailments affecting a lot of different body systems and organs. Moreover, the pattern of deaths didn’t fit the virus narrative at all—deaths increased dramatically across the board among adults of all ages—not just the “elderly and vulnerable.” In NYC, deaths suddenly exploded, killing 50,000 extra people in just 8 weeks, then disappeared. And, the mass casualty event had an epicenter near New York Harbor, with deaths diminishing with distance from the epicenter.

I suspect there are many more aspects of the death waves that could help narrow down the possibilities of what killed all those people, both in the NYC region in the first wave, and in subsequent death waves elsewhere in the US. I hope to identify a few of those aspects, starting here.

Death peaks: states and months where the most deaths occurred

I wanted to get a snapshot of what was going on in the times and places when excess deaths were highest—the peaks of the death waves—because in those times and places, whatever was killing people was having its greatest effect. This isn’t intended to be a complete overview of excess US deaths—it’ just a sample of death peaks in selected months and states, and included about 196,000 excess deaths.

I started with a report of monthly deaths by state from 2018-2021; I eliminated 11 states with less than 4,000 excess deaths from 2020 thru 2021, since smaller numbers could distort the snapshot. Of the remaining 40 states, I decided to focus only on the months and states where deaths increased more than 60%, compared to the 2018-2019 average. Most instances occurred in certain months: April, July and December of 2020, and January, August and September of 2021. These peak months roughly correspond with the peaks of the death waves we saw earlier.

To see a full table of the percent increase in deaths in every state and month in 2020 and 2021, see Note 1. It’s apparent from the table that the personal experiences of medical personnel and funeral workers could be very different, depending on what state they are in, and the time period. Also, as in the NYC mass casualty event, the county where they are located within the state could make a major difference—since some counties may have had large increases in deaths, while others had little or none. It’s an important issue to be aware of, but I don’t cover it here.

Places of death: where did people pass away?

The federal database offers 7 options for where people died, which are listed on the top and bottom left of the table below. There were some remarkable similarities in the places deaths increased the most, in all the peak death months. For example, deaths increased the most, by far, among medical facility inpatients, who accounted for 55% of excess deaths overall. Deaths at the decedent’s home also increased a lot in all the peaks, accounting for 23% of excess deaths overall. In all the peaks, deaths remained pretty much the same in hospice facilities, and in medical facilities - dead on arrival.

A brief discussion

The fact that most increases in death occurred among inpatients in medical facilities means one of three things: Either the death rate among medical facility inpatients increased a lot; or the number of medical facility inpatients increased a lot, or both. It should be possible to narrow this down with more investigation.

We can’t jump automatically to the conclusion that toxic treatment protocols used in hospitals explain most excess deaths, given the large, although less dramatic, increase in deaths at home. The fact so many more people were dying at home must mean that either people were dying suddenly, such as from a medical emergency or accidentally, with no opportunity to seek help at a hospital; or, they were unable or unwilling to go to a hospital for some reason. Based on my previous research on the NYC mass casualty event, and on excess deaths overall, I suspect the deaths at home in all the death peaks will include adults of all ages—but that remains to be seen.

It sounds like some kind of sick joke that the best chance of surviving the death waves was to be in a hospice facility—the place people go to die. Could it have something to do with the fact that hospice patients typically stay indoors, thus avoiding some airborne poison? Or could it have something to do with the fact that hospice patients typically don’t receive any medical treatments, just drugs to ease pain in their last days? It’s a real puzzler that begs for an explanation.

One anomaly that stands out is the huge increase in deaths in nursing homes/long term care facilities in the April 2020 death peak, which is basically the NYC mass casualty event. Its 244% increase in deaths was much higher than in any other death peak, where increases in nursing homes/long term care facilities ranged from just 6% to 54%.

I’m afraid the little snippets of information I’ve provided here are more like teasers than revelations—they raise more questions than they provide answers. But, it’s a start, and provides at least a little food for thought.

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Notes

1) Excess deaths by month and state, 2020-2021.

In the table below, states/months in red show where deaths increased more than 60% compared to the 2018-2019 average; in green, where deaths increased less than 15%. States with less than 4,000 excess deaths from 2020 thru 2021 were omitted. To run a search for deaths by state and month from 2018-2021 in the WONDER database, use this link. Citation is below.