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This is bad analysis which uses historic numbers and plops COVID against them. Everyone right now is dying of COVID and not much else. Apparently it’s healing cancer and heart attacks.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

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I understand why total number of deaths decreased a little bit due to quarantine.

But sudden drop in total number of deaths from 52,992 down to 35,863 in the last week - looks suspicious.

I get the point you're trying to make with the data, but could you expand more on "healing cancer and heart attacks."?

Not sure I follow

If they're making the same claim I've seen elsewhere: People who would have died anyway from cancer/heart attacks but also have COVID19 are getting counted as COVID19 deaths instead of other causes, causing a dip in those numbers.

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