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The casualty numbers are quite accurate. The US records every cause of death.
by mlindner 7y ago
The casualty numbers are quite accurate. The US records every cause of death.
- raphlinus 7y agohttps://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1250170016504430595 https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1250170016504430595 @MarkLevineNYC BREAKING: NYC publishes, for first time, data on fatalities that includes "probable" cases (those without a confirmed test result). It has pushed the death toll in NYC up by 57%. Was 6,589 before this adjustment. Now stands at 10,367. This is a painful but necessary accounting.
- gizmo686 7y agoThe US cannot record data it doesn't have. Covid is only the cause of death if the deceased had Covid; and we cannot know that unless we can test them. In aggragate, we can sidestep this issue by looking at excess death, but that is non-trivial (particuarly because the behavioural changes mean that we would expect other causes of death to differ in unknown ways). At the end of this, I would expect to get fairly accurate estimates for how many died to Covid, but while we are in the middle of it, the numbers are very murky.
- csdreamer7 7y agoIndeed, if you look at CDC's cause of death numbers you will see they only list till 2017. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/lcod/ https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/lcod/ At least that is what I could find. I was curious to see if I could find some month to month chart on all deaths for March, February, and January. I could not find one.
- macintux 7y agoThat is categorically false. They’re not testing every dead person for the virus, and most people die from one of its side effects, like pneumonia.