I'm not a nursing home person, but I am a former journalist in Cobb County GA who attempted to get all cause mortality statistics from our state throughout the pandemic. As background, I'd called this same state office many times over the years for stats and never had an issue getting information, but this time I had to make up a story about how my motive had nothing to do with covid, that it was for a sociology paper I was writing for grad school. When the young point of contact person would finally get back to me, it was reluctantly with many caveats, things such as, "This isn't the FINAL number, we still have to clear it with the CDC..." Since when does the state vital statistic office have to confirm or clear THEIR NUMBERS with the federal agency?! Never, to my knowledge, they are the primary source. She would say, "We have to get confirmation from the CDC..." and I would reply, "But you get the information directly from the county coroners?" and she would hem and haw.

What I found initially was that all cause mortality in my county initially went down during covid, likely because fewer people were driving around, getting in car accidents. It was the exact opposite of what my newspaper was reporting!!! But after the shots were rolled out, ZERO information was allowed out by the office of vital stats. The woman just stopped calling me back. Anectdotes from firefighter sources were that motorcycle accident deaths were being registered by the coroner's office (because the fire stations see copies of the reports later) as covid deaths. I don't know statistically that much about the country, but I know my county and things were really messed up. About the only county official NOT in on the conspiracy or effort or whatever you want to call it was our school superintendent, who opened schools after just one difficult semester of online "learning." He was right the entire time, and our covid rate was no different than adjacent counties who stayed closed. Our kids continued to be normal while other counties and superintendents caused great harm by locking kids down!