Gregory's Server
Mini-PSA: The US didn't actually stop tracking covid deaths.
For a few years, the feds ran *two* fatality-tracking systems—CDC's tracker assembled from state reports, and the provisional death counts from the National Center for Health Statistics, which do all kinds of death reporting via the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). In 2023, the CDC discontinued case and death data compilation, leaving the NVSS as the sole source.
You can find the NVSS data here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm
Back when we were still compiling pandemic data at the Covid Tracking Project, we documented all the federal sources for stats, and we compared the two fatality-tracking data streams in detail here:
https://covidtracking.com/analysis-updates/federal-covid-data-101-working-with-death-numbers
…most of the difference was about timing—the provisional death data stream is slow because of the way it's assembled, and faster data is really nice to have. But the NVSS system is still reporting—and better standardized than the compiled data from states was.
Back when we were still compiling pandemic data at the Covid Tracking Project, we documented all the federal sources for stats, and we compared the two fatality-tracking data streams in detail here:
https://covidtracking.com/analysis-updates/federal-covid-data-101-working-with-death-numbers
…most of the difference was about timing—the provisional death data stream is slow because of the way it's assembled, and faster data is really nice to have. But the NVSS system is still reporting—and better standardized...