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
As of last week the latest data showed this(from another post of mine):
The raw data shows a little over 220,000 excess deaths in the US from the beginning of 2022 until the last data date which is November 6th, 2022. That's 308 days so it ends up at ~714 excess deaths per day, from this data set, in the US.
So through 2022 there's actually been over 700 excess deaths per day when compared to pre-pandemic years.
Generally speaking about half of those have been attributed to COVID, but there's a lot of caveats there. Depending on where you live in the US your county's medical examiner might not believe in COVID. Often there's pretty strict requirements that won't allow COVID to be on a death certificate if it happened a certain number of days after the infection, even if the patient never recovered. If COVID triggers other incidents like strokes or heart attacks those won't be attributed to COVID.
Long story short, over 700 people per day are still dying, only half of those are called COVID deaths, but there's virtually no situation in which that's all that are actually due to COVID if we counted them the way we do the flu, for instance.
