1/ Interesting data from Colorado yesterday.

Colorado is the only state (as far as I know) to report the number of deaths from people who were infected with #Covid when they died as well as deaths found to be caused by #Covid. The state started reporting both back in May...

2/ The "deaths among cases" number has generally run only about 15% ahead of the Covid-caused number (remember, our rules for counting #Covid deaths are so aggressive that they include almost anyone with positive PCR test)...

https://covid19.colorado.gov/press-release/state-explains-covid-19-death-data-reporting

3/ Yesterday, however, the state reported both a large number of deaths and a massive gap between the two figures - there were 267 deaths in people with infections, but only 149 people died from Covid... https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/12/09/covid-colorado-december-hospitalizations-decline/

4/ Remember, most states only report the larger figure publicly. "[Colorado Dept. of Health] explained that to date, its data dashboard included deaths among all people who had COVID-19 at the time of death... This is the standard way states report."

5/ I don't want to overweight one data point - but again, the gap suggests that when infections are widespread, we really need euromomo and @cdcgov excess mortality figures to know how many "with" deaths the daily reports are capturing. Don't expect to hear this on CNN, though.