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In reply to the discussion: How can a disease with a 1% mortality rate shut down the U.S? Answered by Franklin Veaux: [View all]Jillgirl
(64 posts)Good point about deaths being caused by covid covertly. (gallows humor -- could not resist)
I think the best way to get an estimate of how many deaths are caused by covid is to look at data on excess deaths. That means the number of deaths this year minus the number last year. If there are no major forces besides covid causing people to live longer or less long, then that number is a good estimate of how many deaths covid caused. I don't have time to pursue that just now, but I did glance at that data about a month ago and it seems to suggest that covid deaths are more than are being reported.
Oh, I need to read more carefully before I reply. That's what you said in your last paragraph. But you are looking at data in England and I was looking at data in the US>