In 2020 the virus was not fully spread for several months. Our main peak was in October. Some other nearby facilities were hit a month or 2 earlier, but your still looking at over half the year gone. To compare 2020 to 2021 you would have to look at just the months covid was in full swing.
Patently wrong.
- Covid took off in March of 2020. We had ten full months of Covid.
- In 2021, we are just entering the 11th month. We have had ten full months of Covid.
In short, we have 10 months of Covid in both years.
By end of March 2020, we were over 211K cases
By end of April 2020, we were over 1.1M cases
By end of August 2020, we were over 6.36M cases
Here is our USA data as of today:
2020 Cases: 20,649,014
2021 Cases: 27,267,176
2020 deaths: 368,017
2021 deaths: 415,548
We passed 2020's death total in 9 months and 1 week this year.
Look at by days if you want.
2020: We had Covid from March 1 to Dec 31 2020 - 305 days = 1,207 deaths/day
2021: We have had Covid all year to today - 318 days = 1,307 deaths/day
Finally, you don't and can't compare periods in full swing. Dumb. Because we have never been "blanketed" with Covid. It's hit geographically and calendar-wise at different times in different areas.
When Delta hit, it wasn't in "full swing." It was in LA and MS and MO and AR hard. But not in ND, SD, ID, WA, OR, or dozens of other states, many till later. When Covid hit last year in Seattle and WA it wasn't in full swing. When Covid blew up in NY and NJ, it wasn't blowing up elsewhere. It took a lot of states weeks and in some cases a month or two to get their first wave.
Covid has not "blanketed" the USA at any one point in time. It's been rolling hot spots and epicenters since the beginning.