I have just assumed the numbers of deaths in NYC was accurate- deaths are hard to fake or cover up in the US health system. I think it needs to be accepted that these people died in that 10 week period, which then leads to the question of why was it so much worse in NYC and Italy, for example? I have always had the impression, formed from anecdotal reports at the time, that hospitals in NYC were putting everyone on ventilators ASAP, with some claims that it was being done to control the output of virus from the lungs of the infected. If this true, then these hospitals and doctors killed most of these people in a misguided attempt to "save" them.
Do you have any data from a Hebrew free burial association or a chevra kadisha? I know this is just a slice of the population but no matter the emergency, Jews typically bury their dead within 24 hours or as close to that as possible. Not sure if anything could be extrapolated from that data but here’s an article from August of 2020 talking about how they were still dealing with excess deaths. https://forward.com/news/444382/qa-volunteering-with-chevra-kadisha-in-the-era-of-coronavirus/
I love your stubbornness and I would kinda like to look into it. Almost done with my summer deaths article now, which couldn't be any no more different.
First thing would be to scrape CDC Wonder for NY data by cleverly combining a lot of requests.
I have just assumed the numbers of deaths in NYC was accurate- deaths are hard to fake or cover up in the US health system. I think it needs to be accepted that these people died in that 10 week period, which then leads to the question of why was it so much worse in NYC and Italy, for example? I have always had the impression, formed from anecdotal reports at the time, that hospitals in NYC were putting everyone on ventilators ASAP, with some claims that it was being done to control the output of virus from the lungs of the infected. If this true, then these hospitals and doctors killed most of these people in a misguided attempt to "save" them.
Do you have any data from a Hebrew free burial association or a chevra kadisha? I know this is just a slice of the population but no matter the emergency, Jews typically bury their dead within 24 hours or as close to that as possible. Not sure if anything could be extrapolated from that data but here’s an article from August of 2020 talking about how they were still dealing with excess deaths. https://forward.com/news/444382/qa-volunteering-with-chevra-kadisha-in-the-era-of-coronavirus/
Good for you, thank you so much, and please keep going.
I love your stubbornness and I would kinda like to look into it. Almost done with my summer deaths article now, which couldn't be any no more different.
First thing would be to scrape CDC Wonder for NY data by cleverly combining a lot of requests.
Has anyone done that yet?