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IMO, that's the best overall statistic (and not w/o its problems as well). I just feel there is too big a problem with the way COVID related numbers are being generated. And while I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I can see where some of this does feed the conspiracy theorists (and they may not be entirely wrong).
Exhibit A:
As an example, I tested positive for COVID a few weeks back (a mild case fortunately, and I am double vaxxed, waiting on my booster since I've gained some immunity from this). So if I died in a car accident yesterday (writing this post from the hereafter- Hi y'all!), my death would be labeled as "within 90 days of a positive".
Hospital admissions are also a bit wacky, you could go in for a twisted ankle, test positive for COVID, and get labelled as such. But being asymptomatic, you never would have gone to the hospital otherwise (as would be the case with a normal, mild flu).
So the "within 90 days of a positive test" is close to the "excess deaths", but that still is questionable. Now, I don't know, but I've heard that suicide rates are up due to depression from isolation, and there may be other health related issues (but you'd think less travel would mean fewer deaths from those causes).
I can't come to any conclusion, but I pretty much do not trust many of the numbers, and especially the media spin on it. It's just more complicated than this.
-ERD50
Analysts have looked at accidental deaths within 90 days of a Covid positive positive test and the numbers are minuscule.
There are many more that died in hospitals after 91 days following a positive result that will have had Covid on their death certificate because it might have been a contributing factor.