Meanwhile in the "hardest hit" county in Ohio. The county commissioner is explaining to everyone this morning why the official covid numbers don't actually matter don't make any sense. And that that little map they have is totally bogus.
> So how do we get this bigger picture? That’s where what researchers call “excess death” data come in. Simply put, excess deaths are the difference between the number of deaths that were expected to occur during a given time period and the number of deaths that actually occurred.
I suspect some deaths are being mis-attributed to C19 (for example that gunshot story). While other things are probably being undercounted.
1. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cdcresponse/accomp...
Also deferred medical care because the health care system is overloaded.
Finally, people are not getting the best health care money can buy. In most countries if you are very old or have underlying conditions making your survival chance very low, they don't offer to try everything.
Excess death is a useful metric for the true total body count of Corona, including all cultural, economic and policy changes it entails. However it's really hard to accurately provide any number for the mortality of the disease itself.