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CDC publishes weekly number of deaths from all causes: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/

• naasking 6y ago
  Great. Since the whole country is not in lockdown, let's examine a region which has been highly impacted: * Select "Excess deaths with and without COVID-19" for the dashboard * Enter "New York City" as the location (New York state as a whole shows a similar trend) New York state was locked down March 20th. Notice the marked increase in non-COVID-19 related deaths starting March 21st, increasing steadily into April (almost 200% higher than predicted number of deaths). The tooltips also say that this data is still incomplete, so these numbers could climb. Now maybe it's unrelated, or maybe it's COVID-19 related that was incorrectly assigned, but you seem fairly confident that it's unrelated to the other factors the OP mentioned. I don't see how you can reach that conclusion given the data available at this time.
  • pps43 6y ago
    Look at non-COVID-19 related deaths in a location with lockdown in effect, but with few COVID-19 deaths. Those should not be people who died from COVID-19 without a test, but if lockdown drives deaths up, there should be enough of them to be visible. If you do it in New York, chances are you would be attributing COVID-19-related but unconfirmed deaths to lockdown.