OK, so one question I had back in March was how are they going to handle the updates to the Social Security Death Master File.

What I’m getting at is there should be a way of sussing out the all causes mortality numbers from that data alone. So, I’m asking, does anybody know how long it usually takes from someone being pronounced dead to having their record added to the DMF?

Because the “record count” listed in the weekly updates for the year so far don’t yet reflect the pandemic numbers.

Which seems suspicious, like they’re doing everything to bottleneck the flow of information.