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https://www.wkrn.com/news/covid-19-is-evolving-getting-better-at-becoming-an-airborne-virus/

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/25/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/28/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/covid-19-cases-spike-in-south-dakota-is-the-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-to-blame

A number of recent revelations illustrate the difficulty in keeping track. 

• The administration of New York's former Gov. Andrew Cuomo did not publicize 12,000 Covid-19 deaths on the official state tally, although they were included in data maintained by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cuomo's successor, Gov. Kathy Hochul, has added the deaths to New York's official total.
• Officials in several states, including Kansas, Georgia, Alabama, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, have amended the death certificates of people who died in January of 2020 to show those deaths were caused by Covid-19, according to an investigation by the San Jose Mercury News. That's important because the previously first-known US victims were in February and the change suggests the virus was moving throughout the country before previously known. 
• Florida, without fanfare, changed the way it reports some Covid-19 deaths to the CDC, which created some confusion. The state health department says, since March, it has reported deaths by date of death rather than the date a death was recorded. This month it worked with the CDC "to provide a procedural improvement...to ensure the most accurate data is consistently provided to the public."

Florida's reporting change. On Thursday, for instance, Florida reported 1,338 new deaths to CDC that had not been included in previous totals. The newly reported deaths are not reflected in recent trends, but instead spread around to earlier dates based on the date the death occurred. Death records can take weeks or months to be reported to the CDC. Florida publishes its own Covid data review, but only on Fridays. A new lawsuit seeks to force the state to return to daily reports.

National totals are also difficult to track. The CDC's recorded total of deaths, more than 631,000, the agency acknowledges, is less than the likely total number of Covid deaths. CNN uses data from Johns Hopkins that puts the recorded US Covid-19 death total at more than 643,000.

Comparing Covid-19 data with excess deaths. The CDC, in addition to monitoring Covid-19 data, also monitors total deaths of any kind. As the New York Times recently noted about Florida, the current data suggested the number of total deaths in that state during first week of August was 5,593, far above the average expected number of deaths -- 3,755 -- based on previous years. The state acknowledged fewer than 1,500 Covid deaths for that week in its weekly official release of Covid-19 data. 

Florida's percentage of excess deaths remains far above much of the rest of the country. See the CDC's state-by-state breakdown here.

Deaths due to Covid-19, but not from Covid-19. The Covid-19 pandemic has also caused more people to die for other reasons than Covid-19, according to estimates. The University of Washington's Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) changed its reporting back in May, to argue the toll of the virus has been much higher than previously acknowledged when it included the estimates of this excess mortality attributable to the effects of Covid-19 on society in addition to the disease itself. Covid-19 deaths were more than 500,000 at the time, but pandemic-related deaths were closer to 900,000 in the US.

Dr. Ali Mokdad at IHME tried to simplify the formula that goes into their statistical model for CNN. In addition to the reported Covid deaths, IHME tries to account for excess deaths that can be attributed to:

• deaths to mental illness brought on by the pandemic
• deaths due to health care people did not get during the pandemic
• deaths due to lockdown risk factors like obesity and smoking
• deaths due to increases in social disruptions like obestiy and smoking

It then subtracts reductions in deaths due to other viruses, injuries and air pollution.

"There are a lot of unreported deaths," Mokdad said in a video call. "Covid-19 will affect our mortality in many different ways."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/04/politics/covid-19-deaths-what-matters/index.html

Louisiana sees 'astronomical' number of new Covid-19 cases, governor says

By Travis Caldwell, CNN

Updated 6:25 PM ET, Sat August 21, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/21/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/29/texas-caleb-wallace-anti-mask-protests-freedom-dies-covid-19

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-coronavirus-mu-variant-illinois-chicago-20210903-j2jzvr6wsjehflbuhlonquvipe-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/19/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/09/01/1033337445/fake-vaccination-cards-were-sold-to-health-care-workers-on-instagram

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_data

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-21/science-can-t-keep-up-with-virus-creating-worry-for-vaccinated

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• 24 August 2021

COVID vaccines and blood clots: what researchers know so far

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02291-2

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033586429/anti-parasite-drug-covid-19-ivermectin-washington-county-arkansas

https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/science-health/954134/what-we-know-about-myocarditis-and-the-covid-19-vaccines

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/19/moderna-vaccine-myocarditis/

https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2021/08/even-mild-covid-19-likely-can-spark-significant-heart-damage-washington-cardiologist-says.html

https://www.biospace.com/article/higher-rates-of-myocarditis-with-moderna-shot-health-officials-investigate/

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fdas-centre-veterinary-medicine-deems-120000241.html

https://www.who.int/news/item/09-07-2021-gacvs-guidance-myocarditis-pericarditis-covid-19-mrna-vaccines

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/08/studies-look-clotting-myocarditis-tied-covid-19-vaccines

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