New York “like mass casualty event” coronavirus and other deaths up three fold

[Elderberry]

JoNova 4/13/2020

Across the US all cause mortality is down as as people avoid catching the flu, getting run over, and other risks. But in New York where coronavirus has hit hardest, all cause mortality is at record highs.

This is nothing like the seasonal flu

For the whole month of March, deaths in New York were twice as high as normal. This includes not just extra coronavirus deaths but all other causes. Deaths were even higher than the number of known coronavirus deaths, leaving cardiologists worried that there may have been an increase in other conditions like heart attacks or strokes, because people were afraid to go to hospital or couldn’t get help in time.

This is an underestimate.  The authors expect this number to rise as more paperwork gets completed. It’s still only a small excess in a giant country, but it hints at the scale of the event were no quarantine measures put in place, no flights stopped, and the virus allowed to spread naturally. The current epidemic is stabilizing in New York, but if major action wasn’t taken, this would be the early weeks of a pandemic about to sweep across all fifty states. And this would not be the peak week, but just a point on a rapidly rising exponential curve.

For those who wonder if this is just a case of poor data or misdiagnosis, no, something unusually bad is really going on. This is not just the normal flu “mislabelled”.

More: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/04/new-york-like-mass-casualty-event-coronavirus-and-other-deaths-up-three-fold/

[dfwgator]

Having idiots like Wilhelm and Cuomo in charge tends to do that.

[Gefn]

JoNova 4/13/2020

Across the US all cause mortality is down as as people avoid catching the flu, getting run over, and other risks. But in New York where coronavirus has hit hardest, all cause mortality is at record highs.



More: http://joannenova.com.au/2020/04/new-york-like-mass-casualty-event-coronavirus-and-other-deaths-up-three-fold/

The author may be correct however they forgot to consider that suicides are going way up.
People are suiciding and/or going out via murder/suicides.

[PeteS in CA]

1. de BlahBlah and his peeps were telling NYCers well into March to keep going about their lives pretty much normally, including partying hearty during Chinese New Year.

2. NYC combines high population density and heavy dependence on subways and buses.