The deaths from a degradation of the health care system is a real thing, I dont understand why so many have such a strong opinion without having some kind of assumption or connection to the medical field. Yes, COVID-19 is real, but so is minor acute care that has gone far too long without proper care that has turned into severe cases; that is not accounting the severe acute cases right out of the gate that went far too long without medical care. These people stayed away for many reasons either out of fear or being told not to come in and some happened to take it a little to literal. My clients that I talk with week after week at the hospitals are providing this feedback in the emergent care sector, my direct friends that I have whom work at hospitals are reporting this, these observations are at both a rural and metro level.
Agreed, for the reasons above is why I have a problem with the blanket assumptions of the NY 3000k plus deaths added in one day. Sure more than likely most were COVID-19 but they have the swabs to make that decsion of death at a later date to be determined, for an accurate count and work toward the studies of the effects of COVID-19.