People don’t die by the weekly average, it’s not how death tends to work. There’s trends that can be seen over the course of years overlayed over months and seasons but there’s no death week and there’s no consistent weekly death rate.
What you, the cdc, and USAToday are actually supposing here is that more than 600,00 people died nov 1 to Jan 1 and I don’t buy it. That’s why they’ve altered the numbers already and they’re going to alter them further.
By what mechanisms are you imagining they “discover” 100-1000 deaths in any given week or month in their accounting process? 100,000 people float up on lakes for that Nov 1 shift?
Morgue lost only some specific people for over a year then found them and decided to report it all of the sudden?
https://web.archive.org/web/20201117075102mp_/https://data.cdc.gov/api/views/muzy-jte6/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD
I mentioned that they were going to fudge the numbers. Take a gander in the wayback machine.
I got the month wrong - Nov 1 was over 2.6 million.
In the new dataset Nov 1 is over 2.7 million
People don’t die by the weekly average, it’s not how death tends to work. There’s trends that can be seen over the course of years overlayed over months and seasons but there’s no death week and there’s no consistent weekly death rate.
What you, the cdc, and USAToday are actually supposing here is that more than 600,00 people died nov 1 to Jan 1 and I don’t buy it. That’s why they’ve altered the numbers already and they’re going to alter them further.
By what mechanisms are you imagining they “discover” 100-1000 deaths in any given week or month in their accounting process? 100,000 people float up on lakes for that Nov 1 shift?
Morgue lost only some specific people for over a year then found them and decided to report it all of the sudden?