[tsimionescu]

Is that relevant? How many people happen to have some other acute terminal illness/accident AND Covid at the same time?

Also, do you imagine this is different for Influenza deaths or TB deaths? If anything, Covid-19 deaths are much more accurately counted than deaths from any other major disease, which are often just estimates.

[Y-bar]

10%, see my other reply.

Which is why I think excess mortality seems like the best high-level number to look at.

[tsimionescu]

That 10% from your other comment has no relationship to Covid19 deaths vs people dying of unrelated causes who happen to be Covid19 positive.