All mortality cause numbers are estimates, and the method is clearly stated in the website.
The title of the submission is somewhat misleading (we can't really say that the leading cause of death on that day was COVID-19), but the information is the best we have and it's helpful to make sense of the current crisis.
What you're asking can only be done months from now, once we have numbers for all deaths and their official causes.
The title of the submission is somewhat misleading (we can't really say that the leading cause of death on that day was COVID-19), but the information is the best we have and it's helpful to make sense of the current crisis.
What you're asking can only be done months from now, once we have numbers for all deaths and their official causes.