What doesn’t stand out is Florida’s excess death toll, particularly when compared to Georgia, its immediate neighbor to the north. ADADOf course, that doesn’t tell us anything about the comparison between Florida’s official covid-19 death toll and its excess deaths, just that the excess deaths themselves don’t suggest any strange pattern. In recent weeks, the number of confirmed deaths has closed with or caught up to the number of excess deaths — because those excess deaths are compiled on the aforementioned delay. The gap between confirmed covid-19 deaths and excess deaths is not entirely or necessarily a measure of undetected covid deaths. “The impact of COVID-19 on mortality is significantly greater than the official COVID-19 data suggest,” he told National Review in an interview.

Source: Washington Post March 31, 2021 19:19 UTC