Uncounted Covid Deaths? The CDC's contradictory pneumonia and flu death numbers(wordpress.jmcgowan.com)
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Uncounted Covid Deaths? The CDC's contradictory pneumonia and flu death numbers
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Unless I'm misinterpreting the data I don't understand what he finds surprising. He compares pneumonia and influenza deaths from last year to this year and finds they are less this year. Also, important to note that it is across 13 weeks so presumably includes weeks where we weren't effected by coronavirus.
But 1) all things being equal you would expect less pneumonia and influenza deaths when people are dying of corona virus instead 2) i don't think the number of deaths from pneumonia and influenza is a constant and it being higher or lower between years is not surprising.
I guess he assumes the influenza and pneumonia deaths is meant to include covid deaths. Then I guess it makes sense but it would be helpful if there was something in his PDF making this claim and backing up this claim.
But 1) all things being equal you would expect less pneumonia and influenza deaths when people are dying of corona virus instead 2) i don't think the number of deaths from pneumonia and influenza is a constant and it being higher or lower between years is not surprising.
I guess he assumes the influenza and pneumonia deaths is meant to include covid deaths. Then I guess it makes sense but it would be helpful if there was something in his PDF making this claim and backing up this claim.
And no, I'm not qualified to parse the data either, the null hypothesis of "this guy doesn't understand the data he's making wild claims about" just seems far more likely than "the CDC's death figures are all off by a factor of 3".