Not having causes of death reported, or rather purposely obfuscated, is precisely the value of these excess-over-baseline mortality studies. The science and ma

Not having causes of death reported, or rather purposely obfuscated, is precisely the value of these excess-over-baseline mortality studies. The science and maths of these things are quite well understood and one can give Bayesian credible bounds, or frequentist prediction interval bounds for these quantities. I also have no doubt that those close to the government will no doubt try everything possible to deny, dispute and discredit these numbers because it does not show a pretty picture.