Long and short is, there is (possibly) mass under-reported death as well, or at the very least mass "unclassified" death.
I don't know that the miscounted items are enough to make much of a difference versus the totals, but the huge delay in CDC moving deaths from the R-category of unknown/unidentified to whatever they might be. As the writer notes, it is inconsistent across states, some states seem to have reported more on-time (but how accurately in that case?) while others have huge delays in reporting. This isn't just a 'deaths lag infections' issue, it's a pretty sweeping slowness in resolving cause of death.
The weirdest part is that either this sluggishness or the incidence of 'unknown' type of deaths has been increasing since at least last fall.
Maybe they need to ban smartphones and social media at the agencies.
It's quite a bit worse than you think: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2020/07/11/analysis-of-mortality-data-post-1/
Long and short is, there is (possibly) mass under-reported death as well, or at the very least mass "unclassified" death.
I don't know that the miscounted items are enough to make much of a difference versus the totals, but the huge delay in CDC moving deaths from the R-category of unknown/unidentified to whatever they might be. As the writer notes, it is inconsistent across states, some states seem to have reported more on-time (but how accurately in that case?) while others have huge delays in reporting. This isn't just a 'deaths lag infections' issue, it's a pretty sweeping slowness in resolving cause of death.
The weirdest part is that either this sluggishness or the incidence of 'unknown' type of deaths has been increasing since at least last fall.
Maybe they need to ban smartphones and social media at the agencies.