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Pobeka

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3. What about "excess deaths" do you find misleading?

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 18, 2020, 05:49 PM

Nov 2020

We have *huge* populations we're working with, years of data showing expected death rates for different demographics by state.

Excess deaths is just a measure of how many more deaths are happening than expected. The analysis is reasonable because we know many deaths are never comfirmed as COVID due to either purposeful clerical omissions (see Florida), or the victims not tested.

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US reaches grim milestone of 250,000 coronavirus deaths [View all] left-of-center2012 Nov 2020 OP

Excess deaths at 309,000 according to NY Times analysis as of 11/18/2020 Pobeka Nov 2020 #1

That's misleading left-of-center2012 Nov 2020 #2

What about "excess deaths" do you find misleading? Pobeka Nov 2020 #3

Some of those deaths are still indirectly caused by Covid. meadowlander Nov 2020 #4