Thanks for the link.
Click on “Dashboard” to see the CDC’s interactive charts on excess (more than typical) deaths. It’s great that one can select any state for examination.
Caution, the graph goes back to January 1st 2017. So this year is collapsed on the right side of the graph, making it a somewhat harder to see what is going on.
I won’t put any weight on predicted deaths with Covid-19 until I understand it. But I do understand “actual deaths.”
Selecting “weekly deaths by age group” and “Update Dashboard” gives a view that is easier to take in, as the time scale is now 0 to 26 weeks. For older people, it shows a clear spike and decline, to values that are now below normal.
This is a good tool. I hope the underlying data is good too!
Yeah, this is the way to do the measurements. Cases mean nothing, hospitalizations are administrators finding a way to bill the stimulus package and make up for discretionary surgeries not performed.
But Excess Deaths are hard to deny. That’s real info.
Texas got my attention. Hey never had an early spike and then lockdown based decline. But they have been floating along above normal, accumulating Excess old people Deaths.
Contrasted with Nebraska and Tennessee, where they have negative Excess Deaths.
We’re going to know much more in about 2 weeks.