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by der Teufel
Sat May 30, 2020 8:35 pm
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Topic: U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Is Inflated
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Re: U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Is Inflated

There are some strong arguments which indicate the actual number of deaths is actually undercounted!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... -counted1/
Perhaps, the best clue as to whether COVID-19 deaths have been undercounted or overcounted is excess mortality data. Excess mortality is deaths above and beyond what would normally be expected in a given population in a given year. CDC data shows a spike of excess mortality in early 2020, adding up to tens of thousands of deaths.

In other words, so far there have been a little over 100,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19, while there have been about 130,000 more deaths than there were at this time of the year in 2018 and 2019. Some of those are likely because people are avoiding hospitals and not getting treatment that they needed, or they got insufficient treatment because resources were tied up treating COVID-19 patients. Still, one can make a case that coronavirus deaths are actually greater than reported.

Me, I don't know what the real numbers are and I'm not losing sleep either way.
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