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Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 1,300 people have died of COVID-19 in the seven counties of the southern San Joaquin Valley and foothills, according to official counts by county health departments and the state. The tallies aggregated in those health department dashboards, which represent between one and two percent of all who’ve tested positive for the virus, capture those who were confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 and whose death certificates listed the virus as a primary cause of death. But an FM89 analysis of death data spanning many years in California paints an even more grim picture: That far more Californians have died so far this year than on average, even after accounting for COVID-19, and that those excess deaths are occurring at a higher rate in the Valley than in the state as a whole. According to death data from the California Department of Public Health, 2,094 more Valley residents died from March through August of this year than during the average of
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