[Leftcoast]

You are correct and I shouldn't have compared this week's death toll with the April data.  That mistake is mine and not in the FT dashboard. However even when compared with the earlier numbers the US is not showing the sort of excess death discrepancy in Europe.   In fact, the April 11 date is BEFORE the 3K adjustment made by New York on April 14 so that discrepancy wasn't baked into the 20K figure you noted. If we include that adjustment there is almost no discrepancy between our excess deaths and the reported Covid toll.

Granted it's a month later and much has changed since then.

I'm still not sure what to make of this data. I still expect when the story of this epidemic is written we will see the official death count adjusted upward but this early picture doesn't fit that narrative.

[Leftcoast]

You are correct and I shouldn't have compared this week's death toll with the April data.  That mistake is mine and not in the FT dashboard. However even when compared with the earlier numbers the US is not showing the sort of excess death discrepancy in Europe.   In fact, the April 11 date is BEFORE the 3K adjustment made by New York on April 14 so that discrepancy wasn't baked into the 20K figure you noted. If we include that adjustment there is almost no discrepancy between our excess deaths and the reported Covid toll.

Granted it's a month later and much has changed since then.

I'm still not sure what to make of this data. I still expect when the story of this epidemic is written we will see the official death count adjusted upward but this early picture doesn't fit that narrative.