WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Deaths in USA 2/4/2022: 2,619 with 281,469 new cases

Worldometer ^ | February 4, 2021

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

The two web links go to different reports about the issue.

The first (in your previous post) is the World Socialist Web Site, and details with some Twitter links through to opinions in one direction, and post some Johns Hopkins visuals. The page has an amusing assertion: “The CDC has never really counted cases for things that a lot of people get like the flu,” the official said. “They get data from sentinel sites and then extrapolate what is happening.”

The second is the Cleveland NBC affiliate, and its links take one to HHS and CDC web pages for their corroboration. In another direction. This web page includes: "The Jan. 27 HHS dataset update, which displays the numbers from the previous day, counts 1,212 hospital deaths, whereas the provisional figure from the CDC's daily COVID-19 death tally for Jan. 26 is 2,819. The count for that date will likely rise as the CDC updates its provisional data over the next couple of weeks. The HHS did not respond to requests for comment on the reasoning for the change in reporting requirements for hospitals."

Point being that the game of differing views continues. Oddly, since the "gold standards" in collecting and reporting Covid cases and deaths all generally agree, the simple mortality rate arithmetic holds either way. As of today, 6 February 2022 ---

( 5,754,674 "worldometers official" global deaths / 7,924,043,134 global population ) x 100 = 0.0726 % mortality rate worldwide.

( 5,736,177 "JHU official" global deaths / 7,924,043,134 global population ) x 100 = 0.0723 % mortality rate worldwide.

And still -- changes to reporting per the HHS and CDC "yes or no," the US "pandemic response" has been among the worst in the world according to all the :gold standard" sites. It must be an anomaly in the data. Or?

[Owen]

There has been some rebuttal.

The best measure of these things from day 1 has been Excess Deaths and they have trailed reality by 3-4 weeks all along. When people go to the ED graphs and look at them, they always look like deaths are reducing sharply and the world is happy.

But they always look that way because they take 3-4 weeks to accumulate, so the latest week always looks like a sharp decline.

But there is rebuttal of the shutdown of Covid death reporting. Whatever is argued, I have watched and seen states frequently miss days. Sometimes only by hours. They seem to try to catch up by reporting the death count of 2-3 days ago. But I have also seen a missed day never caught up.

Obviously this is going to become horrible undercounting of Covid deaths.

If we don’t have data, we have no way to measure response to events, like seasons, like vax, like shutdowns, like travel obstacles. We’ll know nothing about anything. Very bad.