Zloth
I smell a... wumpus!?
HOWEVER, the death will still be reported. You can compare that to the normal death rate and get an overall effect of the virus. That will be giving you the over-all effect, though, not just the COVID-19 deaths. Other causes of death will go up, too, because hospitals are harder to get into, child abuse isn't reported as often, and so on. There's some pulls downward, as well, like fewer traffic deaths because fewer people are driving. It should be a useful number, though.That means even with exponential growth in deaths, we are wildly under-reporting both cases and mortality.
P.S. Craziness of the day... it seems some people have decided that 5G causes COVID-19 and are attacking cell phone towers. I guess it beats having them blame it on some race/creed/color but jeez.