> Ascribing all excess deaths to coronavirus is a mistake. I worded my statement intentionally. > It's also most likely still an undercount Some of the exces

> Ascribing all excess deaths to coronavirus is a mistake. I worded my statement intentionally. > It's also most likely still an undercount Some of the excess deaths will be other things. It will take more careful analysis to come up with reasonable breakdowns, and what percentage is likely covid-19 deaths. Basically, as this article mentions - https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/05/02/excess-deaths-during-covid-19/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/05/02/exc... > “I think people need to be aware that the data they’re seeing on deaths is very incomplete,” said Dan Weinberger, a Yale professor of epidemiology who led the analysis for The Post. > Those excess deaths — the number beyond what would normally be expected for that time of year — are not necessarily attributable directly to covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. They could include people with unrelated maladies who avoided hospitals for fear of being exposed or who couldn’t get the care they needed from overwhelmed health systems, as well as some number of deaths that are part of the ordinary variation in the death rate. The number is affected by increases or decreases in other categories of deaths, such as traffic fatalities and homicides. > But excess deaths are a starting point for scientists to assess the overall impact of the pandemic.