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Re:Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the hea... by henrikschroder on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @08:38PM (#23098293)
The CDC has all-cause excess mortality tracking and graphs here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

As far as I can tell the numbers are statistically computed estimates, based on real reported deaths, so it's not actual counted deaths, and there's still reporting lag skewing the last couple of weeks.

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Re:Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the hea... by guscost on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @08:49PM (#23098362)
Thanks, yes it looks like recent weeks are weighted for under-reporting (how to figure out the weighting with so much chaos is another question), and they're estimating that a little over 60% of excess deaths in the past few weeks were caused by COVID-19.
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