Not including the 1st wave from the COVID deaths stat reveals the success (or, SK's case, abject failure) of public policy. https://twitter.com/opensourcejoel/status/1380307002774192128

When you look at excess deaths in the first wave, SK seems to be under-reporting COVID deaths by a factor of 10. Meanwhile, in Atlantic Canada, if anything COVID deaths were being over-reported.

If SK continued to under-report COVID deaths at a comparable rate into Dec & Jan when our cases spiked (the first time), then the scale of the SaskParty failure is friggin' mind-boggling.

Thanks to @nomaddadMatt for this thread. I will have to reevaluate my understanding of SK's excess deaths situation. Looks like the situation may NOT be so dire here. (Leaving earlier tweets up about excess deths for now) https://twitter.com/PaulMasiowski/status/1371421042309091332?s=20