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CDC COVID-19 U.S.A. Mortality Color Chart
Unfortunately into its 3rd year

COLOR-CODED MORTALITY GRAPH - LOCKED ARCHIVE LINKS

These are Updated and Archived news items, many of them outside of this website.
Eventually the links may not work. Everything's Eventual.

CORONAVIRUS UPDATES

People will talk and write about the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and COVID-19 for a long time. I hope this color-coded chart will be helpful.

(1) Deaths with confirmed or presumed COVID-19, coded to ICD–10 code U07.1
CDC Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

NOTICE:
Oct. 8: As of this day the CDC began counting C-19 mortality rates back to Jan. 1, 2022 again. As before when they stopped counting prior to June 4, 2022 back to Jan. 1, to today, 4 months, I've found no statement saying why the count wa halted or why it began again. I also don't have any conjecture. The numbers I transcribe here represent only the data that the CDC provides without my interpretation.

Sept. 2: Since June 4, 2022, I noticed that the CDC took a new direction and stopped counting the mortality rates of previous years. This was the practice throughout 2021 and the first six months of 2022. I've searched for the announcement stating why the wall went up but haven't found anything yet. When I do I'll link it here.

NEWS UPDATES

0-1,000 | 1,001-3,000 | 3,001-5,000 | 5,001-7,000 |
7,001-9,000
| 9,001-11,000 | 11,001-15,000 | 15,001+

2023

Week ending date in which deaths occurred All deaths involving COVID-19 (U07.1)1
Mar. 11 462
Mar. 4 1,283
Feb. 25 1,673
Feb. 18 1,826
Feb. 11 2,210
Feb. 4 2,546

JAN. 31

These benefits will disappear when Biden ends the Covid national and public health emergencies in May
President Joe Biden intends to end the Covid-19 national and public health emergencies on May 11, the White House said Monday. That means that many Americans could have to start paying for Covid-19 testing and treatment after the declarations cease.

Continued at CNN.

Jan. 28 2,822
Jan. 21 3,182
Jan. 14 3,644

CDC & FDA Identify Preliminary COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signal for Persons Aged 65 Years and Older
- CDC, Updated Jan. 13, 2023

Jan. 7 3,820

2022

Jan. 1: It came to my attention that a significant part of the population had no idea how many people die from influenza every year, fully separate from COVID-19.

People are, in fact, going so far as to ignore standard Pneumonia precautions, focusing only on COVID-19, as if the mortality rate between the two is so wide that Pneumonia is something to safely disregard.

There is only an approximate 11.45% difference in the mortality rates and there are months when Pneumonia mortality rate surpasses COVID-19 mortality rate.

This is the way Pneumonia's annual average mortality rate has existed throughout the centuries since Pneumonia was first tracked.

The CDC charts it, so beginning with 2022, I've added the mortality rate for Pneumonia.

Week ending date in which deaths occurred All deaths involving COVID-19 (U07.1)1 Deaths involving Pneumonia (3)
Dec. 31 3,602 5,351

New data show the #COVID19 variant #XBB.1.5 is projected to make up 40.5% of COVID-19 cases nationally. See thread below for what we currently know and on what you can do to protect yourself.

See COVID Data Tracker
- CDC Official Twitter, Dec. 30, 2022

Dec. 24 3,244 4,903
Dec. 17 3,136 4,889
Dec. 10 2,991 4,921
Dec. 3 2,556 4,618
Nov. 26 2,469 4,267
Nov. 19 2,233 3,934

Confirmed: Omicron BQ.1.1 and BQ.1 are the dominant variants
CDC, November 17, 2022

Nov. 12 2,176 3,830
Nov. 5 2,229 3,771
Oct. 29 2,227 3,651
Oct. 22 2,179 3,809
Oct. 15 2,133 3,545
Oct. 8 2,180 3,537
Oct. 1 2,367 3,572
Sep. 24 2,540 3,583
Sep. 17 2,497 3,595
Sept. 10 2,796 3,602
Sep. 3 2,916 3,576
Aug. 27 3,034 3,696
Aug. 20 3,156 3,729
Aug. 13 3,284 3,845

"COVID-19 remains an ongoing public health threat; however, high levels of vaccine- and infection-induced immunity and the availability of medical and nonpharmaceutical interventions have substantially reduced the risk for medically significant illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19. As transmission of SARS-CoV-2 continues, the current focus on reducing medically significant illness, death, and health care system strain are appropriate and achievable aims that are supported by the broad availability of the current suite of effective public health tools. Rapid identification of emergent variants necessitating a shift in prevention strategy makes continued detection, monitoring, and characterization of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants essential. Incorporating actions to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 into long-term sustainable routine practices is imperative for society and public health."
- Greta M. Massetti, CDC, August 11, 2022

Aug. 6 3,363 3,813
July 30 3,391 3,811
July 23 3,223 3,820
July 16 2,924 3,600
July 9 2,584 3,597

The United Kingdom's Government website for the Office for National Statistics, releases the full data of their Deaths by vaccination status, England.
All data is downloadable in reference tables as a Microsoft Excel Open XML Format Spreadsheet file using the .xlxs extension.
- ONS.gov.uk, July 6, 2022

July 2 2,423 3,486
June 25 2,326 3,515

June 25 Update: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared that Monkeypox is not a global health emergency and the CDC immediately restarted their Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), backdating to June 4.

June 18 2,195 3,575
June 11 2,134 3,527
June 4 2,004 3,532

June 3 Update: Provisional death counts are based on death certificate data received and coded by the National Center for Health Statistics as of June 3, 2022.

Notice: The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) will be undergoing a system-wide upgrade starting June 6, 2022. NVSS COVID-19 surveillance webpages and data files will be paused between June 6, 2022 through June 17, 2022. Data updates are expected to resume on June 21, 2022.

May 28 1,940 3,376
May 21 1,747 3,526
May 14 1,669 3,385
May 7 1,433 3,256
April 30 1,425 3,316
April 23 1,347 3,312
April 16 1,407 3,402
April 9 1,556 3,331
April 2 1,908 3,616
March 26 2,508 3,947
March 19 3,122 4,405

March 15 - CDC Footnotes: "On March 15, 2022, data on deaths were adjusted after resolving a coding logic error. This resulted in decreased death counts across all demographic categories."
The total mortality count is now reduced by approximately 70,000.

FeoNote: Data logs saved from before and after this announcement shows no significant change on a scale reflecting the 70,000 figure.

March 12 4,400 4,828
March 5 6,047 6,123
Feb. 26 8,289 7,295

Feb. 24. Russia invades Ukraine.

Feb. 19 11,562 9,137
Feb. 12 15,331 11,098
Feb. 5 18,768 13,244
Jan. 29 20,997 14,281
Jan. 22 21,383 14,437

Jan. 22 - The John Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences releases a report stating that Lockdowns across Europe and the United States caused more death and damage than COVID-19, while doing virtually nothing to prevent deaths and infection from the virus.

Jan. 21 - CDC cautiously reports a possible 0.0% mortality rate from COVID-19 Omicron Variant (B.1.1.529).
TESSy cautiously reports a possible 0.06% mortality rate from COVID-19 Omicron Variant (B.1.1.529).

Jan. 20 - Joe Biden is sworn in as President of the United States of America.

Jan. 15 19,119 13,553
Jan. 8 15,144 11,827
Jan. 1 11,694 10,064

2021

Week ending date in which deaths occurred All deaths involving COVID-19 (U07.1)1
Dec. 25 10,474
Dec. 18 10,267
Dec. 17 - CDC lists Omicron Variant as a "Variant of Concern". Global Case fatality rate is tracked at 0.0%
Dec. 11 9,744
Dec. 4 8,792
Nov. 27 7,897
Nov. 26 - WHO recognizes Omicron Variant. World Case fatality rate is tracked at 0.0%
Nov. 20 7,325
Nov. 13 7,174
Nov. 6 7,302
Oct. 30 7,974
Oct. 23 8,957
Oct. 16 9,902
Oct. 9 11,196
Oct. 2 12,856
Sep. 25 14,375
Sep. 18 15,243
Sep. 11 15,448
Sep. 4 15,536

Aug. 30 - The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine for people ages 16 years and over.

Aug. 28 14,208
Aug. 21 12,205
Aug. 14 9,424
Aug. 7 6,500
July 31 4,126
July 24 2,770
July 17 1,995
July 10 1,650
July 3 1,548
June 26 1,639
June 19 1,783
June 15 - CDC lists Delta Variant as a "Variant of concern".
June 12 2,048
June 5 2,353

May 31 - WHO recognizes Delta Variant. World Case fatality rate is tracked at 0.3%.
June 1 - Delta Variant, first identified in India in late 2020, becomes dominant variant and kicks off third wave of infections in the summer of 2021.

May 29 2,783
May 22 3,245
May 15 3,694
May 8 4,015
May 1 4,180
April 24 4,614
April 21 - U.S. surpasses 200 million vaccines administered.
April 17 4,460
April 10 4,325
April 3 4,213
March 27 4,464
March 20 4,911
March 13 5,733
March 13 - U.S. surpasses 100 million vaccines administered.
March 6 6,742
Feb. 27 8,674
Feb. 20 10,834
Feb. 13 13,550
Feb. 6 17,067
Jan. 30 20,362

Jan. 25 - First U.S. case of Brazil variant of coronavirus reported in Minnesota.
Jan. 28 - First U.S. case of South African variant of coronavirus reported in South Carolina.

Jan. 23 23,730
Jan. 16 25,738
Jan. 9 26,027
Jan. 2 24,892

Dec 30 - First case of UK variant of coronavirus reported in Colorado.

2020

Week ending date in which deaths occurred All deaths involving COVID-19 (U07.1)1
Dec. 26 23,399
Dec. 19 22,342
Dec. 12 20,940
Dec. 5 18,578
Nov. 28 15,628
Nov. 21 13,365
Nov. 14 10,654
Nov. 7 8,766
Oct. 31 7,031
Oct. 24 6,000
Oct. 17 5,204
Oct. 10 4,823
Oct. 3 4,246
Sep. 26 4,305
Sep. 19 4,280
Sep. 12 4,628
Sep. 5 5,021
Aug. 29 5,755
Aug. 22 6,389
Aug. 15 7,270
Aug. 8 7,870
Aug. 1 8,308
July 25 8,250
July 18 7,198
July 11 5,786
July 4 4,557
June 27 3,846
June 20 3,852
June 13 4,233
June 6 5,060
May 30 6,176
May 23 7,249
May 16 9,239
May 9 11,243
May 2 13,223
April 25 15,557
April 18 17,221
April 11 16,347
April 4 10,141
March 28 3,226

March 26 - U.S. Senate passes the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

March 21 588
March 14 60

March 11 - World Health Organization (WHO) declares COVID-19 a pandemic.
March 13 - President Donald J. Trump declares a nationwide emergency.
March 14 - CDC issues a "No Sail Order" to all cruise ships in waters that the U.S. has jurisdiction over.

March 7 38
Feb. 29 9

Feb. 23 - Italy becomes global COVID-19 hotspot. Italian government effectively locks down the country.
Feb. 26 - During a telebriefing, CDC's Dr. Nancy Messonnier, Incident Manager for the COVID-19 Response , states that the "disruption to everyday life may be severe".
Feb. 29 - CDC and FDA announce new policies for Guide Evaluation and Testing of Patients Under Investigation (PUI), and for certain laboratories to develop and begin use of validated COVID-19 diagnostics before the FDA has complete review of their EUA.

Feb. 22 6
Feb. 15 6

Feb. 11 - WHO announces official name for the disease that is causing the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak: COVID-19.

Feb. 8 4

Feb. 3 - CDC submits Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) PACK to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to expedite approval for the CDC developed SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test
Feb. 4 - FDA approves the EUA PACK. CDC distributes 200 test kits through its Influenze Reagent Resource program to laboratories across the U.S.
Feb. 8 - Public Health laboratory in NYC, NY reports that the test produces "untrustworthy results".

Feb. 1 0

Jan. 29 - The White House Coronavirus Task Force is established with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, Alex Azar as the head of the Task Force.
Jan. 31 - WHO reconvenes and declares coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, declares the SARS-CoV-2 virus a public health emergency and the White House 2019 Novel Coronavirus Task Force announces the implementation of new travel policies to be effective at 5:00PM EST on Feb. 2, 2020

Jan. 25 3

Jan. 22 - World Health Organization (WHO) International Health Regulation Emergency Committee meets. Decides not to declare the novel coronavirus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Committee chooses to monitor the situation and reconvene in 10 days to re-discuss. WHO confirms human-to-human spread of the novel coronavirus.

Jan. 18 2

Jan. 13 - Thailand Ministry of Public Health confirms imported case of lab confirmed Wuhan-Hu-1 novel coronavirus from China.
Jan. 17 - CDC begins screening passengers on direct and connecting flights from Wuhan, China at San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY, and Los Angeles, CA. and plans to expand screening to other major airports.

Jan. 11 1

Jan. 5 - Chinese public health officials shared the genetic sequence unknown pneumonia virus (Wuhan-Hu-1) through an online database.
Jan. 7 - CDC establishes a 2019-nCoV Incident Management Structure to guide response in Wuhan, China of to Wuhan-Hu-1.

Jan. 4 0

So! How well are you doing so far?

Timeline found at CDC.gov/Museum/Timeline/covid19.

Archived CDC Mortality Figures for the years

2020 - 2021 - 2022

CDC's Significant Changes to their Counts

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UPDATES: As of January 24, 2022
The astonishing spread of the Omicron variant could help set the stage for the pandemic to transition from overwhelming to manageable in Europe this year, a top health official said on Monday, potentially offering the world a glimpse at how countries can ease restrictions while keeping the virus at bay.
Full story at The New York Times.

As of December 01, 2021
First detected on November 22 in Botswana laboratories and reported by South Africa to WHO on November 24, the latest variant of COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2, is named Omicron (variant B.1.1.529) on November 26. WHO labels it a "Variant of concern" on the advice of their TAG-VE.

As of November 13, 2021
The CDC, which since July 2021 has virtually left the 2020 death toll counts alone excluding minor single digit tweaks, began reshuffling the 2020 mortality rate in earnest, although nothing that comes close to the allegedly high numbers Anthony Fauci (Head of NIAID) and Bob Anderson (Chief chief of NVSS) claimed the previous president suppressed. Since the arrival of the new administration, there have been no major leaps in the overall death count of 2020 despite the fact that the head of CDC announced they'd counted the numbers but were not allowed to reveal them under Trump.

As of August, 2021
The Delta Variant aka India Variant, was first classified in India on May 31, 2021. It's one of three variants from lineage B.1.617 of COVID-19. It's theorized to be responsible for the February 2021 second wave of COVID-19 deaths in that country. It was first identified by multiple sources in the U.S. in August.

As of September 11, 2021
Evidence builds that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan, China lab. It's the only theory with any supporting evidence behind it. Despite the U.S. Media and Facebook's contrary reporting, there remains no science research or evidence to refute this. In fact, as of this writing, there was never evidence to substantiate a counter claim, according to WSJ and MIT, despite claims by the U.S. Media.

As of May 24, 2021, the CDC has yet again decided that no deaths in the U.S. happened in the week of Jan. 4. This following news that the long labeled "Conspiracy Theory Hoax" of COVID-19 originating in a Wuhan, China lab is still the only theory that has any supporting evidence behind it. Further, there was never any science research or evidence that conclusively proved or suggested otherwise. In fact, as of this writing, there is no evidence to substantiate a counter claim, according to WSJ and MIT.*

"The WHO-led team that visited Wuhan concluded in a joint report with Chinese experts in March that the virus most likely spread from bats to humans via another animal, and that a laboratory leak was "extremely unlikely."

However, team members said they didn't view raw data or original lab, safety and other records. On the same day the report came out, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the team hadn't adequately examined the lab leak hypothesis, and called for a fuller probe of the idea."

*

MAY 13, 2021
MIT: Top researchers are calling for a real investigation into the origin of covid-19

MAY 23, 2021
WSJ: Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate on Covid-19 Origin

MAY 27, 2021
BBC: Covid origin: Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory is being taken seriously

NPR: Why The U.S. Thinks A Lab In Wuhan Needs A Closer Look As A Possible Pandemic Source

JUNE 17, 2021
NPR: Did COVID-19 Leak From A Lab? A Reporter Investigates — And Finds Roadblocks

SEPT. 15, 2021
INDIATV: Scientists who declined COVID-19 leak theory linked to Wuhan lab, Chinese researchers: Report

As of July 3, 2021, the CDC has decided that the death of Patient 0 in the U.S.A. DID NOT occur on Jan. 4, but one week later on Jan. 11, seven days before China reported their first COVID-19 death on Jan. 18.

As of May 18, 2021, the CDC decided that the death of Patient 0 in the U.S.A. DID occur on Jan. 4, thirteen days before China reported their first COVID-19 death on Jan. 18.

As of April 3, 2021, the CDC decided that Patient 0 in the U.S.A. DID NOT occur on Jan. 4, but two weeks later in the week of Jan. 18 with three separate Patient Zeros.

As of Dec. 15, 2020
COVID-19 Vaccines were administered in the U.S., with health-care workers and older people living in health facilities getting the first of the 2.9 million doses already manufactured.

Mutiple media sources report that the first COVID-19 death did not occur in the U.S. until February 3, 2020, but as of April 2021, CDC maintains that C-19 deaths occurred in January.

NYT reports that the first death by COVID-19 in China happened on Jan. 11, 2020. CDC reports three deaths in the U.S. by Jan. 18, 2020. NYT maintains that the first death in the U.S. did not happen until Feb. 29, 2020 - Leap Year day. NYT also maintains that, due to the inherent incompetence of the Chinese Government, precautions, cautions, and other measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 were intentionally bungled by the Chinese bureacracy.
A Timeline of the Coronavirus Pandemic (Way Back Machine at archive.org).

National Public Radio (NPR), claims that the first death in the U.S. was both on Feb. 29, 2020 in Seattle, Washington, and Feb. 6, 2020 in Santa Clara County, California.

The Center For Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) of the University of Minnesota, confirms the first two U.S. COVID-19 deaths on Feb. 6 in Santa Clara County, California.

This is not meant to be either a damning or glib statement regarding conflicting news from various sources. What's important to remember is that no one source has all the answers and believing otherwise is a matter of faith. The spread of such faith in single sources for news leads to misinformation.

Throughout the 34 months of doing this graph, and the 30 months of making it public here, I arbitrarily locked the updates whenever I felt a curious change took place. Please note that my curiosity factor in archiving these frozen moments is due to my personal filter and so only empirical.

Locked archive links provided below.

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