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Originally Posted by someone123
It depends on the place but in some places, a covid death is just a death with a positive test, and a covid hospitalization is just a hospitalization with a positive covid test. If a 7 year old goes in for foot surgery and happens to test positive for covid, in covid hospital count is incremented by 1. If a cancer patient happens to test positive for covid 2 weeks before dying of cancer, they are a covid death. Anyone who goes into a hospital is screened and they go there for one problem or another.
This does not mean that there aren't people still getting seriously ill but I'm not sure there is a clear end point that will be indicated by the "headline" statistics given the way they work. Perhaps a more reasonable assessment would add some context or "control" in the form of all-cause mortality and mortality from other factors.
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Excess mortality is probably the best indicator (which indicates that the US has likely been systematically undercounting COVID deaths but Canda may have been systematically overcounting, though maybe they're statistically consistent given the methodology).
https://www.economist.com/graphic-de...deaths-tracker