NYC health chair may have just explained the head-scratching "early flattening" of the curve in the city.

It's not that coronavirus deaths have flattened.

It could be that 200+ more people than usual are dying each day *outside of hospitals* and aren't being counted. https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247155576221716480

In addition, NYC (and most other cities) might be undercounting COVID cases from heart attack deaths as these don't always present first with shortness of breath.

https://khn.org/news/mysterious-heart-damage-not-just-lung-troubles-befalling-covid-19-patients/