with a persistent 300 deaths/day in on US covid graph, trying to understand --
are these "deaths from covid" or "deaths with covid" (not caused, just had covid upon death).
Useful graph that we still have "excess deaths" in US, which points towards "death from covid" (without covid around, we would not have had these deaths) Interesting dashboard.
I am no expert, is this what you deduce from these?
deaths:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/#graph-deaths-daily
excess deaths:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm#dashboard
@brewsterkahle I think this is key to estimating the effect of COVID-19. It’s a net effect, so if we have fewer deaths from flu, for example, as a result of masking and isolation, but “excess deaths” are still higher… I don’t trust that we’re consistently assessing cause of death accurately across the country, but overall death numbers are hard to fudge. So I’ve been treating “excess deaths” as “caused by COVID, directly or indirectly,” for years now.
