You think so? I've seen enough medical resources say otherwise...they are totally swamped with Covid deaths. These medical personnel surely must know.
If you want to think the actual numbers are less than being reported, I guess you can...but I don't live in your rose coloured glass world. My thinking is we have way more cases of Covid caused deaths than what is reported. I highly doubt a person that dies out of the hospital would be tested for Covid given we still have a lack of testing going on on live people.
And yes, there will be deaths as a result of Covid overrunning the medical system from things like heart attacks which Covid has indirectly contributed to which are also not counted.
Are the regular flu statistics right or wrong? Or are there more deaths than being reported for the same reason?
In any case, here are the statistics for regular flu. CDC estimates that the burden of illness in the US during the 2018–2019 season included an estimated 35.5 million people getting sick with influenza, 16.5 million people going to a health care provider for their illness, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths from influenza.
So far, Covid-19 statistics include: 532,092 cases 20,562 deaths to date. Of course it's not over. And certainly isolation has greatly lowered the number.
Arguing that there are some "hidden" deaths from Covid also means there are similar "hidden" deaths for regular flu. So those numbers have to be increased as well to make statistical comparisons. It seems like you're looking for additional deaths to justify the shutdown of the economy just in case the final count turns out lower than regular flu. Because everyone's going to ask whether we over -reacted. This is why Sweden's more relatively lackadaisical attitude is important. It will show whether they were right or not in taking a more laissez faire attitude.