I can't read it as not signed up to NYTimes, but I'm guessing it's reporting that CV deaths are being counted, whereas in previous years those deaths would be counted as heart attacks, pneumonia etc?
Similar to Inproprtion2 showing the dramatic drop in other causes of death being reported, while CV deaths increase. Which is my point, ie, 'died with' or 'died of'. It seems people dying of other things, are being added to the numbers for CV.
Also, if you check this out -
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/ then go to
COVID 19 daily announced deaths 8 April 2020 and then Daily Deaths By Region,
It shows the daily figure of 828 is actually made up of deaths going back over a month. The question is...are these the actual confirmed number of people who 'died of' CV after autopsy? IE, is the actual total number of CV deaths 828 and not 6483?
Or is this daily total the sum of previously unreported deaths?
Sorry, an extract follows, but it is basically saying heart attack hospital admissions are way down.
"The hospitals are eerily quiet, except for Covid-19.
I have heard this sentiment from fellow doctors across the United States and in many other countries. We are all asking: Where are all the patients with heart attacks and stroke? They are missing from our hospitals.
Yale New Haven Hospital, where I work, has almost 300 people stricken with Covid-19, and the numbers keep rising — and yet we are not yet at capacity because of a marked decline in our usual types of patients. In more normal times, we never have so many empty beds.
Our hospital is usually so full that patients wait in gurneys along the walls of the emergency department for a bed to become available on the general wards or even in the intensive care unit. We send people home from the hospital as soon as possible so we can free up beds for those who are waiting. But the pandemic has caused a previously unimaginable shift in the demand for hospital services.
Some of the excess capacity is indeed by design. We canceled elective procedures, though many of those patients never needed hospitalization. We are now providing care at home through telemedicine, but those services are for stable outpatients, not for those who are acutely ill.
What is striking is that many of the emergencies have disappeared. Heart attack and stroke teams, always poised to rush in and save lives, are mostly idle. This is not just at my hospital. My fellow cardiologists have shared with me that their cardiology consultations have shrunk, except those related to Covid-19. In an informal Twitter poll by @angioplastyorg, an online community of cardiologists, almost half of the respondents reported that they are seeing a 40 percent to 60 percent reduction in admissions for heart attacks; about 20 percent reported more than a 60 percent reduction."
Same is happening in Spain.
The punchline is that if people don't seek treatment, they are more likely to die.
https://www.recintervcardiol.org/es/?option=com_content&view=article&id=344&catid=14
"A significant reduction in healthcare activity was observed during the COVID-19 epidemic and a great decrease in the number of patients treated with STEMI, with the risk of increased morbidity and mortality that this implies. Scientific societies and health authorities should promote that patients with STEMI-compatible symptoms demand assistance from the health system in order to receive reperfusion treatment appropriately."
