Kentucky
Briand provides a graph like this for all 50 US States plus New York City, showing weekly deaths with lines of different colors for each year. The green line shows Kentucky's mortality for the season 2019-20, with a rise in late spring, blamed on the covid-19 virus. Surprisingly, this 2019-20 rise is significantly lower than the rise from 2017-18 which is indicated by the yellow line. Twenty four other states also had a similar lack of increase over 2017-18. This matches what Preston & Vierboom reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that the 2017-28 influenza season was worse than covid-19. Much of the US increase in mortality in 2020 was from a select number of regions, and when two of the primary ones, New York City and New Jersey, were removed the peak of weekly deaths for the rest of the country not significantly increased in 2020 when compared to 2017-18.
Kentucky had a modest rise in weekly deaths in summer 2020, at the far right of the graph. Briand and Rancourt et al both document that there was a marked increase in deaths from suicides, drug overdoses, and homicides in summer 2020, as shown in Briand's graph of US mortality from non-natural causes, which is a significant factor in the anomalous summer increases seen in many states and in Canada.
Briand provides a graph like this for all 50 US States plus New York City, showing weekly deaths with lines of different colors for each year. The green line shows Kentucky's mortality for the season 2019-20, with a rise in late spring, blamed on the covid-19 virus. Surprisingly, this 2019-20 rise is significantly lower than the rise from 2017-18 which is indicated by the yellow line. Twenty four other states also had a similar lack of increase over 2017-18. This matches what Preston & Vierboom reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that the 2017-28 influenza season was worse than covid-19. Much of the US increase in mortality in 2020 was from a select number of regions, and when two of the primary ones, New York City and New Jersey, were removed the peak of weekly deaths for the rest of the country not significantly increased in 2020 when compared to 2017-18.
Kentucky had a modest rise in weekly deaths in summer 2020, at the far right of the graph. Briand and Rancourt et al both document that there was a marked increase in deaths from suicides, drug overdoses, and homicides in summer 2020, as shown in Briand's graph of US mortality from non-natural causes, which is a significant factor in the anomalous summer increases seen in many states and in Canada.