U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating any Covid-19 patients

Re:U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating an... by SnowProblem on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:40PM (#23118009)

The link you posted shows 11k/16k deaths from COVID. Nothing about 27k. And the chart I posted doesn't show total deaths in NYC, but some selection of morbidities. Is it wrong? Probably. But official data also says heart attacks and strokes are massively down (60-80%), and covid is way up, and there are big incentive problems. I stand by the point.

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Re:U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating an... by SpaceNugget on Friday May 08, 2020 @03:49PM (#23118712)

The nyc.gov link magicalist posted reports:

11460 confirmed covid-19 deaths 5213 probable but unconfirmed covid 19 deaths 10964 not know to be probable and not confirmed deaths (all non-covid deaths)

Which adds up to 27637 total deaths.

Your graph shows ~ 20000 total deaths. That's significantly different.

Also, the sources for the graph you posted are:

1. https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html which as far as I can get it to show, only counts deaths from pneumonia regardless of cause. So I really don't understand why they listed that as a source for the graph as that information isn't displayed.

2. covidtracking.com Which could be the source of their numbers for covid deaths but that leaves no source for their totals.

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Re:U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating an... by SnowProblem on Friday May 08, 2020 @06:45PM (#23120353)

Thanks for correcting me, and to magicalist. I apologize. This was difficult to find, but here's the breakdown for causes of death each week:

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-State-a...

In New York, total deaths from heart-related diseases is up, not down, since covid.

I do see some weirdness in other states, but not New York.

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