Unfortunately, the answer is crystal clear: The Coronavirus Death Toll in the United States is dramatically understated.

Nationwide, 200,700 more people have died than usual from March 15 to July 25, according to C.D.C.

estimates, which adjust current death records to account for typical reporting lags.

Higher-than-normal death rates are now widespread across the country; only Alaska, Hawaii, Maine and West Virginia show numbers that look similar to recent years.

Through July 25, estimated excess deaths were about 37 percent higher than the official coronavirus fatality count.

If this pattern holds, it would put the current death toll at more than 216,000 people.

Arguably hospitals were so flooded with Covid it impacted other ailments and/or fear of catching Covid caused people to not seek treatment for other diseases resulting in excess deaths. .

If one assigned all excess deaths to Covid, the number would be 54,000?

I suspect at least 80% of those excess deaths were Covid-related. ?

In covid-1984, the people who brought you Obama’s/Hillary’s “pivot to Asia” and Trump’s tariffs and who helped use covid to coverup another financial bust will ensure the case/death count suffices to make enough people hate China.

But many were laying people off because they were empty, including in States with almost no covid because of the shut-down protocols.

So much debate about deaths and death rates.

Or that the US has an extremely low death rate, percentage wise.

Trump’s favourite is deaths/cases because it shows the US has a relatively low death rate.

Other measures of death rate show a much different story.

Figures present excess deaths associated with COVID-19 at the national and state levels.

But many of them involve people with serious non-covid health problems who would have gone into the emergency room to get treatment but didn’t because of covid fears.

Or did rates stay constant with more people suffering at home instead of coming into the emergency room.

It has to be obvious to anyone that thinks about it that if you try to specifically count all people who died of "blank", whatever blank is, you are going to be low.

What most people seem oblivious to is that for the flu, the CDC is only able to identify about 5,000 deaths per year as actual flu deaths.

For Covid, so far they have identified 165,000 deaths.

That would mean that the current death number of 165,000 would end up being 198-214,000.

In 2017 the latest final numbers from the CDC , over the 123 days of March 15th to July 25th, about 922,500 people died in the US.

Using overall death rates is a useful and suggestive tool, but to call it 'case closed' based on that evidence is irresponsible

Nobody is mentioning an increase in suicides as one of factors contributing to the higher overall death rate

The death toll is obviously very important and disturbing but there’s still a huge amount we don’t know about the toll of the virus on survivors

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