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The 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 aggra
by gizmo686 7y ago
The 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.