COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

I don't think it's a scientific certainty but it's a very strong correlation.

Oh, there's no doubting the correlation. Just making sure the 50% increase do to uncounted fatalities is reasonably estimated. Could be higher or lower. I actually suspect the figures are underreported by more than 50% because there are no doubt deaths due to being indirectly caused by COVID.