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I doubt anyone dies directly of COVID, it is possible though, I think nearly all die of pneumonia or related disease enabled by a COVID infection.

Eh, I think the whole "dying from COVID" vs "dying with COVID" is a complete sleight of hand. And strangely, the only people who EVER bring that up are the people already looking to minimize COVID's impact.

All you need to do is look at the CDC excess deaths graph: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

A lot more people have died than usual over the last 2 years. Strangely, the shape of the excess death curves just happen to pretty much exactly follow the shape of the known waves of COVID, and of the attributed death due to COVID as shown by Worldometers.

If you want to somehow handwave that those people died from something other than COVID, then it's on you to explain why we have so many excess deaths that are somehow dying "with" COVID.

Yup it could certainly be a reporting lag. As all of this has worn on, I definitely think the urgency in gathering reporting data has diminished.

Yeah, this was from mid-January:



Less than half the states report 7 days a week... Most report every weekday, and some even less frequently than that.

Of course, TX is listed as reporting all 7 days... Do you know if all the individual TX counties report every day?

The CDC generally has a significant lag for their reports, because it's based on actual coroner's official cause of death as reported up through government databases, and those are not typically as up to date as places like Worldometers. Given that it's individual states, counties, and perhaps even individual city coroners, reporting isn't the most timely. Even then, the latest data they currently show is the week ending Jan 29, so >2 weeks ago.

So we really won't have clear data from the Omicron wave for probably another month, as all the numbers come in.