What proportion of the 42000 were natural deaths i.e. non-covid. All of those people will be represented in the 42,000 figure as well. If you are talking about

What proportion of the 42000 were natural deaths i.e. non-covid. All of those people will be represented in the 42,000 figure as well. If you are talking about feb 12 as 'real' numbers, that was the day they included diagnoses based on scans (since the start of the epidemic) as well as positive tests. The fact is counting deaths is hard: NYC has been underreporting deaths by up to 70% - https://gothamist.com/news/death-count-expected-soar-nyc-says-it-will-begin-reporting-suspected-covid-deaths-addition-confirmed-ones https://gothamist.com/news/death-count-expected-soar-nyc-say...