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Google has made the statistics query-able. Google “Covid NYC deaths,” etc. and they graph it for you in the search results. We are at about 8800 COVID deaths f

by rpiguy 7y ago

Google has made the statistics query-able. Google “Covid NYC deaths,” etc. and they graph it for you in the search results. We are at about 8800 COVID deaths for all of NYC (this includes the city boroughs) so out of a total population of about 8.5 million. We will have a more accurate population after this year’s census. Public transit appears to be a big spreader with outbreaks tracking closely to subway stops. Unfortunately we keep it going because it is essential some people couldn’t get food without subway access. This is also probably why suburban America has a far lower number of cases, outside of nursing homes. Even in states like NJ all the counties in trouble have rail lines to and from NYC and are densely populated.

iso1631 7y ago
That's not total deaths registered, that's just deaths that are released as covid related. In the UK all deaths must be registered with the date of death. Normally we expect X deaths per week, we're seeing far more excess deaths than covid deaths in homes and care homes. Two possibilities 1) Non covid deaths are happening at home rather than hospital because people aren't being taken to hospital. I'm sure this is happening in some cases (people being frightened of going to hospital when they have tell-tale signs of strokes etc), but if it was happening a lot then non-covid deaths in hospitals would be down. They aren't. 2) Much more likely, people are dying at home/care home frmo covid but it's not being reported on the death certificate because they haven't been tested for covid.
- rpiguy 7y ago
  Sorry that information used to be available here but is no longer maintained: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/data/data-sets/vital-statistics-data.page https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/data/data-sets/vital-statistic... I do not think Covid deaths are being under-counted in NYC they recently changed to a very liberal policy for labeling Covid-related deaths. No test is required and all deaths not clearly from another cause are now being counted as Covid. This has conspiracy theorists crying foul, but it’s probably prudent. You piqued my curiosity and this change in death classification added 3500 deaths to the count on top of the 8800 confirmed/tested mortalities that Google publishes, and so far NYC is on track to double their monthly deaths from all causes for the month of April :-(

by rpiguy 7y ago

iso1631 7y ago

That's not total deaths registered, that's just deaths that are released as covid related. In the UK all deaths must be registered with the date of death. Normally we expect X deaths per week, we're seeing far more excess deaths than covid deaths in homes and care homes. Two possibilities 1) Non covid deaths are happening at home rather than hospital because people aren't being taken to hospital. I'm sure this is happening in some cases (people being frightened of going to hospital when they have tell-tale signs of strokes etc), but if it was happening a lot then non-covid deaths in hospitals would be down. They aren't. 2) Much more likely, people are dying at home/care home frmo covid but it's not being reported on the death certificate because they haven't been tested for covid.

rpiguy 7y ago
Sorry that information used to be available here but is no longer maintained: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/data/data-sets/vital-statistics-data.page https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/data/data-sets/vital-statistic... I do not think Covid deaths are being under-counted in NYC they recently changed to a very liberal policy for labeling Covid-related deaths. No test is required and all deaths not clearly from another cause are now being counted as Covid. This has conspiracy theorists crying foul, but it’s probably prudent. You piqued my curiosity and this change in death classification added 3500 deaths to the count on top of the 8800 confirmed/tested mortalities that Google publishes, and so far NYC is on track to double their monthly deaths from all causes for the month of April :-(