Since May 8th, USA virus deaths have had a daily high of 1,871 and a low of 750, with most days in the range of 1,300. That is a remarkably low level of dispersion for a country this large with ever-changing levels of lockdown.

What’s really interesting about this is that...1/2

every normal day in the USA about 8,000 people die of all causes. Of those 8,000, according to Stanford, 20% of them die in nursing homes. That means that about 1,600 Americans die every day in nursing homes. This makes it VERY frustrating that we... 2/3 https://palliative.stanford.edu/home-hospice-home-care-of-the-dying-patient/where-do-americans-die/

don’t have good statistics on the actual age of those who are dying, especially on a daily basis. If we did, we might be able to test a theory that PART (NOT all!) of what is keeping our death rate high is that now many nursing home deaths are simply being called COVID deaths 3/3