Quote Originally Posted by "the 9/11 Denier" I_Need_A_Detox:
Why are there more American deaths in 2021 than 2020 even though 200,000,000 Americans are vaccinated?
These reasons explain why, beginning with your illogical comparison:
First, the country has been FULLY SATURATED with covid exposure (coast-to-coast, and 99% of all counties) for each month of 2021. That's 11.4 months. More infection means more deaths.
On the last day of February, 2020, Trump declared we only had 15 infections. The country was not FULLY SATURATED with covid exposure until late June 2020.
A fair comparison must compare the similar conditions: full saturation of covid exposure permeating every corner of the nation. So 11.4 months of full covid saturation across the country obviously means many more deaths than just 6 months of full covid saturation in 2020. Huge difference! This accounts for most of it.
That's the key point. Any intelligent, rational person can understand that.