> wouldn’t that feed into the GP contention that no one is measuring the experience between alive and dead?

Well, no...there have been a lot of publications in this area. We hear about them all the time. Most of these publications are bad at the moment, but that's normal. It takes time for good research to be completed. It will happen.

> if there’s a surge due to covid, shouldn’t we investigate it?

Sure. I don't think anything I've written here implies otherwise.