Karl, so I went to the CDC links you provided and focused on historic weekly deaths from all causes, since dead is dead and only being counted once regardless of a single or multiple contributing causes. Here's what the summarized weekly CDC data looks like.

So according to CDC's published data there were 495536 more deaths in 2020 than in all of 2019. So pre 2020 what did CDC's weekly deaths from all causes look like from 2014 to 2019?

Looks generally pretty consistent week over week, year over year with an upward bias due to our aging population. How does 2020 compare to the previous five years averaged weekly?

Per your investigation of individual causes of death coming up with..

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I can find only 120,475 more deaths that Covid-19 may have contributed

How do we reconcile 375,061 deaths outside CDC's tracked categories?

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