Charting Deaths

Total Death (from Covid-19) Doesn't Tell the Whole Story

We have become accustomed to the daily and the cumulative total death counts by country, states and provinces in countries, and counties within states. Death counts are fundamental measurement in outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics. If the physicians and pathologists classify the death as Covid-19 according to the classification criteria , then at that moment, there is undeniably a body and a cause. The same situation exists for the case count: once diagnosed, the case is a factual case. (Note: Both of these measures may change with amendments to the diagnostic criteria knowledge about the disease changes. Sometimes, "counts" are updated even years after the outbreak.)