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FreeWheatForever

(53 posts) Mon May 11, 2020, 11:18 AM May 2020

What are we to think?

Over the last month I have been reading reports from all over the world of under reporting the death toll. I linked a Huff Post piece below, however, a quick Google search will show you many more.

Have we begun to see it happening here, right now, as states open up to more infections? How is it possible the death toll would be going down? Using google.com/covid19/map as my reference for US deaths here are the reported US deaths over the last 5 days:

5-7 2,558
5-8 1,976
5-9 1,623
5-10 1,496
5-11 878

Something doesn't seem right to me. Should I be happy about the trend or distrustful?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/heres-why-the-coronavirus-death-toll-is-likely-underreported_n_5eb43438c5b646b73d294966
https://news.google.com/covid19/map?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en

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What are we to think? (Original Post) FreeWheatForever May 2020 OP

i'm distrustful rampartc May 2020 #1

Excess Deaths will tell the truer toll. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #4

the actuaries won't release that number until after trump's reelection. rampartc May 2020 #5

Nope. Data already available, including USA (NYC): Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #7

Cases are up daily here and we're only testing those who go to the hospital. onecaliberal May 2020 #2

Governor of Floriduh Donald Trump Junior gibraltar72 May 2020 #3

I was distrustful at the time of my birth. Now, 71 years, later I see no reason to change that basic abqtommy May 2020 #6

Give it 2 weeks. Squinch May 2020 #8

+1. "Death" is what I think they call a "lagging indicator" JustABozoOnThisBus May 2020 #9

rampartc

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1. i'm distrustful

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Mon May 11, 2020, 11:23 AM

May 2020

the rwnjs were complaining that if a guy with covid dies of pneumonia it gets counted against trump's numbers. i think cases like that are now being counted as pneumonia.