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@ZRod These are the top four results of a google search this morning:  

Google News:  83,082 total Covid deaths in U.S. 

CDC:  51,495 

worldmeters.info: 83,449 

statista.com: 80,820 

Normally, I'd say the CDC is the most credible source of data.  But of the four the CDC is the outlier by a wide margin with the other three in fairly close agreement.  

the CDC has a lag on reporting as they wait for the official death certificates to be filed to count them....not just the hospital reporting the death.  the paperwork is the delay there. 

The lag in reporting makes sense.  But it doesn't address the original inaccuracy I mentioned about the local woman on cancer hospice care who had a heart attack.  Should that have been counted as a Covid-19 death by the hospital?