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Deaths even within the US have wildly different criteria for being counted: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/which-deaths-count-toward-the-covid-1
by DarthGhandi 6y ago
Deaths even within the US have wildly different criteria for being counted:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/which-deaths-count-toward-the-covid-19-death-toll-it-depends-on-the-state/2020/04/16/bca84ae0-7991-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/which-deaths-c...
- arwineap 6y agoThe suggestion you are responding to is not suggesting counting covid deaths. It's suggesting we track all deaths/ Then we look at the increase in average deaths. Based on the trends we should be able to estimate how many additional (likely covid) deaths we have incurred during the crisis
- spydum 6y agoThe obvious problem there is the safer at home laws and lack of socializing would have an impact on your average deaths in the opposite direction. So comparing average deaths in the past to now are apples and oranges.
- dilap 6y agoYes, the unadjusted number you get will be a lower-bound. You could then try to get closer to the real number by noticing, e.g., how much car crashes were reduced and adjusting for that.