Explain please. Are you saying the number is maybe being reduced?
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It's like I was saying a week ago and got blasted on here. The number of COVID 19 deaths are inflated because they are coding anyone that dies as covid in some states. Under the CARES Act hospital get a high percentage from Medicaid for covid patient and covid deaths. This is legit however it has added to the death numbers nationwide and created fear. Like I said before explain how death are down in heart attacks stroke and other diseases.
No idea. I just saw an article and a couple social media things. It's probably nothing but they CDC chart shows like 37,000 deaths through May 1st, not the 67,000 we've been seeing in the media. Again, I just caught a glance. Figured some of the conspiracy guys were all over it.
The CDC's number is a "Provisional Death Count." Here's the link to the CDC page with those stats and here's how the CDC defines "provisional" mortality statistics and how it explains for the difference between the "provisional" numbers and those reported elsewhere:
The CDC's "provisional" death count for the United States as of May 1 was 37,308.Quote:
The provisional counts for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) deaths are based on a current flow of mortality data in the National Vital Statistics System. National provisional counts include deaths occurring within the 50 states and the District of Columbia that have been received and coded as of the date specified. It is important to note that it can take several weeks for death records to be submitted to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), processed, coded, and tabulated. Therefore, the data shown on this page may be incomplete, and will likely not include all deaths that occurred during a given time period, especially for the more recent time periods. Death counts for earlier weeks are continually revised and may increase or decrease as new and updated death certificate data are received from the states by NCHS. COVID-19 death counts shown here may differ from other published sources, as data currently are lagged by an average of 1?2 weeks.
Here's a link to Johns Hopkins' page about COVID 19 mortality rates in the USA and abroad. Statistics for total deaths and mortality rates (as measured by the percentage of confirmed cases that end in death) for the USA and many other countries, complete with scatter plots and graphs, are included.
Johns Hopkins' death count for the United States as of May 3 was 67,682.
IHME updated again, this time a little more realistic
https://i.imgur.com/dXhRc0K.jpg