NOTE: This post complements a similar post on Bergamo Province, Italy.
Back in May 2020, the CDC had put out a report about the deaths in New York City:
They found 32,107 New York City deaths over the course of 52 days (11 Mar 2020 - 2 May 2020), when only 7,935 deaths had been expected based on previous years of data — resulting in a 52-day excess death count of 24,172. That’s just in 7.4 weeks.
But if you try to explain 100% of those excess deaths by way of COVID, you hit a roadblock. The top estimate of the infection fatality rate for wild-type COVID has been found to be 0.196%. That amount of virulence requires a minimum of 510 COVID infections in order to produce 1 COVID death.
NOTE: With just 15.5% elderly, the population of New York City is not as old as the population of the UK (~18.8% elderly) where the upper bound COVID infection fatality rate came from — so that no upward correction in the infection fatality rate is required (no increase from 0.196% is required so as to adjust for population age).
To explain the 24,172 excess deaths in those 52 days requires 12.33 million COVID infections, but there were only 8.28 million people living in New York City. If COVID were put forward as the cause of the 24,172 excess deaths, then the average person in New York City would need to have gotten COVID 1.49 times in those 7.4 weeks.
Evidence suggests that the people of New York City have been victims of a public health scandal — and maybe even “medical manslaughter” — because the circulating virus at the time cannot explain the excess deaths which have been noted there by the CDC.