re: Because of Quarantine, fewer Americans died 1st week of March 2020 than 2019 (all causes)

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Give it time

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So, you're saying we should

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Wait For It...

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I'll see myself out

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But if we want to swing the semantics cat around. . .The first COVID patients had been in quarantine well before March 7th

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There were 539 reported cases in the US on March 8th

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The tweet I got it from refers to a quarantine.

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Was there a different tweet than one below which is what you included in your post?

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Weekly deaths in the US down by 7,000 - 10,000 for the week ending March 7 2020! Silver lining with people changing their behaviors during COVID-19?

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https://twitter.com/sidsanghi/status/1244268782341799938

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Also now having some time to glance at data I don't think week 10 is really complete - just mostly complete. Ohio is 53.1% complete, PA 71.7%, TX 97.2%, OK 83.5%, IN 87.8%, LA 73% along with some others including NC and Connecticut below 20%. Based on using flu and pneumonia by state view I am not sure if total deaths nationally change or just % of flu or pneumonia deaths of deaths in individual states. Probably the later but it wasn't clear. A few similar in week 9 through 4 when looking at state numbers (less incomplete states as you move further back).

Again probably more about flu and pneumonia by state but all these weeks are trending down comparatively speaking, so either week 10 was a bigger step in this trend or there are still going to be updates to the data and it will take more time before we really know the final numbers for these weeks.

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Less shootings
Less drunk drivers

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More domestic violence

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fewer Americans died 1st week of March 2020 than 2019 (all causes)

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But did they test everyone? Probably more dead and we just don’t know it.

I don't need it, but using that term just seemed really important to you even though the tweet you linked used much more accurate description. Yours was clickbait.

Also looks like the person is now trying to confirm total deaths are accurate for nation even as states aren't listed at 100% complete for same week
https://twitter.com/sidsanghi/status/1244410073050382338?s=21

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2. Another issue is regarding lags in total reporting. While we only take the weeks for which CDC has put as 100% reporting, there could be reporting lags esp. during the pandemic. We would be updating the numbers, as CDC updates them.

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@CDCgov @CDCFlu it would be great if you can comment on updating frequency and reliability of National Total Weekly Deaths reported on CDC FluView for weeks reporting as ">100%" in %Complete. Emailed NCIRD too! I understand that this may not be the priority at the moment! Thanks!

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But did they test everyone?

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for what?

It is total deaths for a given week, vs same week in previous years.

Cause of death is irrelevant to anything other than establishing correlation

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for what?

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For death. Did they test everyone to see if they are dead?

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I'm gonna say. . .yes?

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Mmm. I don’t think they did. I think those numbers will increase.

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Now let’s watch to see if domestic violence type deaths spike.

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Bookmarked for Mrs MDBs future investigation.