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Excess Mortality Redux: Investigating the Underestimation of COVID-19 Deaths
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[QUOTE="Vanadium 50, post: 6489413, member: 110252"] I absolutely agree that excess deaths tell us something. I disagree with the people who believe that they are somehow the "gold standard" of estimation. As the authors of the paper point out, some excess deaths are not attributable to the virus at all. Murders in Chicago (and gunshot injuries) are up by 50%, nationally the numbers seem not to be final but it's above 25%. Those are excess deaths but not Covid deaths. In the other direction - a friend's husband died of Covid while he had advanced pancreatic cancer. He was unlikely to make it through the year. That's a Covid death that's not an excess death. I think the real value of the sample is not in counting totals, but at looking at distributions to identify places that need as closer look. Does the excess death population match the Covid death population everywhere? If not, what does that tell us? [/QUOTE]
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