So we have reached a point where we can start looking at excess deaths and an increase in deaths by other causes.
I thought this article gave a fair assessment of excess pneumonia deaths in Florida up to around the end of may. Their analysis of available data suggests around 1300 excess pneumonia deaths.
Some attempts to analyze these numbers are higher, but it will take a while before you can work out the errors of private investigation by making sure that all conditions are the same.
some numbers fluctuate because they have a different condition like if you are going to count all tests without differentiating for whether this is a second positive for the same patient, this should be compared to counting all negatives including the negative results taken from the same patient.
So you should not compare the results of the the total number of positive tests when they include tests from the same patient with a total number of negative tests not including duplicate negatives or vice versa where duplicate negative tests are counted with individual positive results.
making sure you get matching conditions that show something real is why a lot of data is useless because it can be very difficult to do this at times.
anyways, it is more than clear either way that pneumonia deaths did not decline due to covid. They have actually been higher this year than in previous years so far even during some of the peak months that we began collecting data for covid.
it will be another six months before enough data is collected for the summer months to see how unusual this summer is in comparison to other years for pneumonia and flu, which is also being counted Even if flu season has ended.
Overall, the excess deaths that are showing a consistent elevated pattern are not really showing the true potential for a higher number of covid deaths that are being missed. This is showing signs of being undercounted now that we have around six months of actual data and are not just dealing with premature predictions.
Last week, I asked how many COVID-19 deaths Ron DeSantis is hiding. We can now account for about 1300 and it seems likely there may well be more.
www.emptywheel.net
I found this article from another article that was reviewing a higher count that actually references other sources that are starting to analyze this too in case anyone is interested.
I'm going to keep this piece short, but it seems to be an important data-focused followup to a previous story I wrote regarding an important public health matter. The earlier story was, "Overall Death Count Jumps Mysteriously In Countries Around The World — No Clear Explanation." Yes, there's a...
cleantechnica.com
TLDR: the number of pneumonia deaths has not declined in order to inflate a false impression about covid.
Link to excess deaths from all causes.
Figures present excess deaths associated with COVID-19 at the national and state levels.
www.cdc.gov