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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Apr 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Mark D. Levine

    I keep saying this but it remains true. We have to look at the excess death figures to gauge what is really going on. They have their problems as well, but help correct some undercounting based on limited testing and treatment.https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1246911781198495745 …

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    Mark D. LevineVerified account @MarkLevineNYC
    Normally in NYC 20-25 people die at home each day. We are now at 200-215. Every day. For sure nearly all the increase is people w/ coronavirus. But not all are being counted that way. One reason that the official NYC covid death count--already high--is certainly an undercount.
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      2. ironic inside baseball username‏ @wokeberia 5 Apr 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        One problem with excess death figures is that there are a lot fewer deaths of other types, for example motor vehicle accidents.

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      3. ironic inside baseball username‏ @wokeberia 5 Apr 2020
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        And given the scale of the populations (car drivers and infected) at the beginning of the outbreaks, it’s a disaster to disentangle.

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      1. 忍者の神 Marxist-Yeagerist ⌬‏ @delmoi 5 Apr 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        One easy way to show this is with graphs of the weekly/daily death rates for various years. Here's a graph for an Italian city - https://www.corriere.it/politica/20_marzo_26/the-real-death-toll-for-covid-19-is-at-least-4-times-the-official-numbers-b5af0edc-6eeb-11ea-925b-a0c3cdbe1130.shtml …pic.twitter.com/amiR7XCi8b

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      1. Finally a Wife Guy‏ @TheBaltimoreSon 5 Apr 2020
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        Also I imagine some number of people are going to die of totally other causes that might have been preventable if hospitals were not completely overwhelmed by coronavirus. I know those are not the same thing but still part of the overall damage done by the disease.

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      1. Eric Arentz‏ @EGA65 5 Apr 2020
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      2. john carney‏ @Johnluvsolivoil 6 Apr 2020

        jw do you have a source for this? i had a feeling it was true after sunday counts last week, and this week basically confirmed in my head, but i can’t find anything confirming it online

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      1. August Pamplona‏ @AugustPamplona 5 Apr 2020
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        If you haven gotten tested & die at home from Covid-19 chances are you won't get tested (why use a test on a corpse that could have been used on a sick person instead?). As such, you will not be counted.

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      1. ChompChompChomp‏ @Iceman4423 6 Apr 2020
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        Look at death, hospital beds, and ventilator usage. Ignore case count.

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      1. Abigail Noelle Martin‏ @anoellemartin 6 Apr 2020
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        I’ve been saying this too. We do this pretty well for calculating excess death & morbidity from heat waves.

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