California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining

Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by eanzenberg on Sunday April 19, 2020 @03:28AM (#22914205)

This is bad analysis which uses historic numbers and plops COVID against them. Everyone right now is dying of COVID and not much else. Apparently it’s healing cancer and heart attacks.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by dennisgorelik on Sunday April 19, 2020 @04:21PM (#22918485)

I understand why total number of deaths decreased a little bit due to quarantine.

But sudden drop in total number of deaths from 52,992 down to 35,863 in the last week - looks suspicious.

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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by natrik on Sunday April 19, 2020 @04:02AM (#22914318)

I get the point you're trying to make with the data, but could you expand more on "healing cancer and heart attacks."?

Not sure I follow

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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by Izkata on Sunday April 19, 2020 @01:24PM (#22917267)

If they're making the same claim I've seen elsewhere: People who would have died anyway from cancer/heart attacks but also have COVID19 are getting counted as COVID19 deaths instead of other causes, causing a dip in those numbers.

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