And why I wouldn't discuss the above out of hand, from our side of the border...
Houston, We Have a Problem (Part 1 of 3)
BTW, EMRs are dandy things. Since there's no paper trail, a lot can be hidden, including malpractice.
Something to keep in mind.
It was a lot easier to catch the doctoring of paper files, wasn’t it...
Re: excess deaths. This is a magnificent piece of research. And it's why so many models and data science and artificial intelligence are frequently rubbish. The real power of ANY statistical or mathematical model, is in the data cleaning and exhaustive processing and visual examination of the data. The vanishing of the deaths from the CDC database is troubling. Nonetheless, this research and the identification of the growth in "Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)’ ICD death code group" is the stuff that should make people take notice. No AI, no wizardry needed. Thanks for posting.