Same problem I discovered in Oregon, leading to a change in how the state reports deaths:

The provisional death count is based on death certificates. As cases increased at the end of 2020, OSDH’s epidemiologists began encountering larger numbers of incomplete records require in-depth investigation leading to a large difference between OSDH’s death count and the CDC’s, the health department said.

Source: OSDH Changes How It Reports COVID-19 Deaths; 747 New Virus Cases Reported

Ohio recently dumped 4,000 Oct-Dec death counts – In February.

Iowa got behind too, but at least their PR explains why the death reports are always lagging.

Media morons have spent months excitedly reporting “54 deaths today!!!!!!!!!!!!” even though, in my state, 75% of them were weeks to months earlier.

Basically, daily body counts have always been wrong but the error was small – until deaths began to increase. Then, the states got further and further behind in reporting deaths, leading up to high death “reports” in January and February as they caught up.

The public saw this and assumed deaths were increasing – when deaths had actually peaked 4-6 weeks earlier.

Epidemiology’s inability to communicate honestly and effectively is embarrassing. The field has the accuracy of astrology with the honest of alchemy.

Deschutes County, Oregon

Oregon Health Authority has taken vaccine doses from rural counties and re-assigned them to the Portland metro area.

On just 2-3 days per week does the County have sufficient doses to administer vaccinations. For the coming week, Deschutes County is allocated 25% fewer doses than the week before.

Multnomah County, Oregon

Multnomah County is home to Portland. The low point at right is due to an ice storm shutting everything down. Otherwise, a rising trend of increasing vaccinations.

Public health thinks rural areas are non-essential, non-elite, worthless – and then wonders why people hate public health officials?

Surprisingly, this scandal is ignored by the media.

Around 7,800 people had died of COVID-19 in Louisiana …. at the same time, another 5,000 excess deaths — 40% of the total — cannot be chalked up to the virus — not directly, anyway.

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many of the deaths apparently came from those who couldn’t or wouldn’t seek care in that crisis. And it appears from a sharp rise in drug- overdose deaths that worries the pandemic would exacerbate so-called “deaths of despair” were equally prophetic.

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Researchers will likely spend years struggling to tally the years shaved off lives from missed cancer screenings,

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data and anecdotal evidence suggest that many people died from other causes because they didn’t get medical care for serious conditions, either out of fear of the virus or because the care was not available.

Source: Louisiana deaths jumped by nearly 30% in 2020: How the victims died | News | nola.com

The UK government has also estimated that 40% of excess deaths during the pandemic are not due to Covid-19 but due to the side effects of government policies, for the same reasons suggested above.