[Freee-dame]

The 3,700 did not all die yesterday. That number was added to the total yesterday, but the people died over the course of the corona virus pandemic. NY will probably find out all of their dates of death and change the death numbers for each of those days. If they leave them all listed on a single day, it will be obvious to anyone that something unusual happened.

First the CDC instructed doctors to list as dying from Covid-19, anyone who died with any symptoms of the C-virus wether tested or suspected, I wonder if that was the case with H1N1 in 2009 or any other previous epidemic.

[DiogenesLamp]

First the CDC instructed doctors to list as dying from Covid-19, anyone who died with any symptoms of the C-virus wether tested or suspected...

And I think this methodology will be "close enough", in the vast majority of cases.

I wonder if that was the case with H1N1 in 2009 or any other previous epidemic.

Probably not, because it didn't cause nearly the damage this thing is causing.

This thing is in a different class than the last several outbreaks of other diseases.