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 weekly mortality for Nebraska from August 2019 to August 2020. This lack of increase over prior years was true for all seven states that did not issue stay-at-home orders.
Just as with Arkansas, there is an anomalous late increase in mortality in July and August that does not reach as high as the 2017-18 peak shown in yellow. Briand and Rancourt et al showed that a rise in deaths from suicides, drug overdoses, and homicides in younger populations occurred in many states in the summer of 2020, as shown in this Briand's graph of mortality from non-natural causes, which is a significant factor in the anomalous summer increases seen in many states and in Canada.
This graph does not show any sign of a pandemic, especially when compared to places like New York City which had the most severe understaffing crisis of any region, or Michigan (New York City, Michigan). Ironically both Michigan and New York City were praised by Anthony Fauci and other social isolation advocates for their aggressive and strict social isolation mandates, while many states with good outcomes were harshly criticized, as discussed in the comments under the graphs of South Dakota and Iowa.
Just as with Arkansas, there is an anomalous late increase in mortality in July and August that does not reach as high as the 2017-18 peak shown in yellow. Briand and Rancourt et al showed that a rise in deaths from suicides, drug overdoses, and homicides in younger populations occurred in many states in the summer of 2020, as shown in this Briand's graph of mortality from non-natural causes, which is a significant factor in the anomalous summer increases seen in many states and in Canada.
This graph does not show any sign of a pandemic, especially when compared to places like New York City which had the most severe understaffing crisis of any region, or Michigan (New York City, Michigan). Ironically both Michigan and New York City were praised by Anthony Fauci and other social isolation advocates for their aggressive and strict social isolation mandates, while many states with good outcomes were harshly criticized, as discussed in the comments under the graphs of South Dakota and Iowa.
